Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 Should I, too, prefer the title of 'non-Jewish Jew'? For some time, I would have identified myself strongly with the attitude expressed by Rosa Luxemburg, writing from prison in 1917 to her anguished friend Mathilde Wurm:



What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball 

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Rosa Luxemburg  - Quotes

 What do you want with these special Jewish pains? I feel as close to the wretched victims of the rubber plantations in Putamayo and the blacks of Africa with whose bodies the Europeans play ball 

Tags: africa   africans   antisemitism   compassion   empathy   europeans   internationalism   jews   plantations   racism     
Napoleon Bonaparte  - Quotes

 The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain. 

Tags: capitalism   gain   internationalism   money   patriotism     


John Fitzgerald Kennedy  - Quotes

 To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. 

Tags: development   hope   inspiration   international   justice   peace     


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