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"I almost always feel inclined, when I happen to say anything to soldiers, to impress upon them in a few brief remarks the importance of success in this contest. It is not merely for to-day, but for al…"

"Comparing them by their faculties of memory, reason, and imagination, it appears to me, that in memory they are equal to the whites; in reason much inferior. ... The improvement of the blacks in body …"

"I've been frustrated and angered by the attempts to paint me as a racist and as lacking in compassion for the poor. On the one subject I was raised by a mother and father who instilled in me and my br…"

"This is the place where the tension between my parents and myself on account of my political beliefs became pronounced. A photo of me standing at picket line on the WITS side of Jan Smuts avenue durin…"

"Mother Teresa’s service would have been good. But it used to have one objective, to convert the person, who was being served, into a Christian. The question is not about conversion but if this is done…"

"Simple: Romeo, Romeo! Why are you Romeo ? Say that your father is not your father, and say that your name is not your name; or if you won't do that, then just promise that you are my love, and I'll st…"

"Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth."

"The pain and suffering inflicted on children by the American diet is so brutal that if it were administered with a stick, parents would be put in jail."

"There is any number of images of men pulling makeshift carts with their wife and kids squatting in it, across hundreds of kilometres; of children trekking vast distances and falling dead; of women lug…"

"The image of the sun where it falls appears as a thing which covers the person who attempts to cover it."

"At the entrance to Shrehi, one of the villages attacked by ISIS in July, we stopped the car to visit the poster that had been erected with the names of the martyrs killed during the attack. Young men,…"

"More than 20 years earlier a small band of Hindu students and thoughtful gentlemen used to meet secretly to discuss the effects of British rule in India. The home charges and the transfer of capital f…"

"So why fret and care that the actual version of the destined deed was done by an upper class English gentleman who had circumnavigated the globe as a vigorous youth, lost his dearest daughter and his …"

"An expert is a person who has found out by his own painful experience all the mistakes that one can make in a very narrow field."

"The answers are easy. Asking the right questions is hard."

"With me as the glaring exception, my father molded the world around him to his liking. The problem, of course, was that Baba saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and w…"

"The women giving birth, who I respect as mothers, were militants who were active in the machine of terror... Many used their unborn children as human shields."

"Infringing upon the right of a single person, we overthrow the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break the undertakings enter unto , nothing assure that we will not break them, pos…"

"If it had pleased them to order that this wealth, after having been possessed by fathers during their life, should return to the republic after their death, you would have no reason to complain of it."

"The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all …"