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“I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.”

“It is apparent that prisoners of war are among the most vulnerable of people. Not only are they completely under the control of their captors, but in a time of conflict, the hatred and brutality of the battlefield are very likely to be mirrored within military prison walls.”

“Wit and Wisdom of Jimmy Carter at LIFE magazine”

“Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.”

“I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference, … It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.”

“The US President was here" Carterpuri, a village in Haryana, India named after President Carter”

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"I was the first MP to table a motion condemning apartheid in South Africa. When I first met Nelson Mandela he was a terrorist, when I next saw him, he was a Nobel Prize winner and the President of Sou…"

— Tony Benn

Politics1925–2014

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"Degas isn't enough of a painter; he doesn't have enough of that! With a little bit of temperament one can manage to be a painter, It's enough to have a sense of art, and that sense is no doubt what th…"

— Paul Cézanne

Art1872–1947

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"The rise of industrial capitalism thus rested on the maintenance of slavery in another part of the world, even though that slavery was no longer dependent on the continuation of the slave trade."

— Eric Wolf

Science1923–1999

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"Jimmy Brown made headlines recently for his off-the-wall talk of an NFL comeback at 47. That's a shame because people who never saw Jimmy Brown in his prime will think of him only as a dotty middle-ag…"

— Jim Brown

Social Activism1936–2023

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