The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa’s major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.
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Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflation from getting too high. The second is to maintain high employment.
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The 1950s and 1960s had been a period of enormous growth, the highest in American history, maybe in economic history.
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When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual.
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In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence.
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don’t mean missiles.
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I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog.
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On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.
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It is easier to go to the Internet than to go to the library, undoubtedly. But the shift from no libraries to the existence of libraries was a much greater shift than what we’ve seen with the Internet’s development.
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Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.
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There are two problems for our species’ survival – nuclear war and environmental catastrophe – and we’re hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
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History shows that, more often than not, loss of sovereignty leads to liberalisation imposed in the interests of the powerful.
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No matter what engineering field you’re in, you learn the same basic science and mathematics. And then maybe you learn a little bit about how to apply it.
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If you’re in favour of any policy – reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever – if you’re at least minimally moral, it’s because you think it’s somehow good for people. And good for people means conforming to their fundamental nature.
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The elections are run by the same industries that sell toothpaste on television.
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