George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Interview with David Brancaccio (2003)
“We must understand something very thoroughly. If society — if the state gives the rights, it can take them away — they're not inalienable. If the states give the rights, they can change them and manipulate them. But this was not the view of the founding fathers of this country.”
A Christian Manifesto (1982)
Context: We must understand something very thoroughly. If society — if the state gives the rights, it can take them away — they're not inalienable. If the states give the rights, they can change them and manipulate them. But this was not the view of the founding fathers of this country. They believed, although not all of them were individual Christians, that there was a Creator and that this Creator gave the inalienable rights — this upon which our country was founded and which has given us the freedoms which we still have — even the freedoms which are being used now to destroy the freedoms.
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Paulo Freire (1921–1997) educator and philosopher
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Gore Vidal (1925–2012) American writer
"The State of the Union" (1975)
1970s, Homage to Daniel Shays : Collected Essays (1972), Matters of Fact and Fiction : Essays 1973 - 1976 (1978)
Richard Bertrand Spencer (1978) American white supremacist
Spencer interview with Dinesh D'Souza for the documentary Death of a Nation: Can We Save America a Second Time?
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2016, Remarks to the People of Cuba (March 2016)
Context: The ideals that are the starting point for every revolution -- America’s revolution, Cuba’s revolution, the liberation movements around the world -- those ideals find their truest expression, I believe, in democracy. Not because American democracy is perfect, but precisely because we’re not. And we -- like every country -- need the space that democracy gives us to change. It gives individuals the capacity to be catalysts to think in new ways, and to reimagine how our society should be, and to make them better.
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Tahrir al-Vasileh, 1970. http://politicalquotes.org/node/54102
Foreign policy
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As quoted in Jazz-Rock Fusion: The People, The Music, p. 40
1970s