“The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.”
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) Romanian politician
For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Politics
“No. I am its true servant, because the prerequisite of success is a ruthlessly clear understanding of reality, of the facts with which we must contend. Without that, all plans begin in error, and so, they must end in disaster.”
Source: Trial by Fire (2014), Chapter 50 (pp. 722-723)
“The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.”
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) Romanian politician
For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard (1936), Politics
Norodom Sihanouk (1922–2012) Cambodian King
Said during his exile in Peking, as quoted by Oriana Fallaci (June 1973), Intervista con la Storia (sixth edition, 2011). page 113.
Interviews
David Ben-Gurion (1886–1973) Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel
Letter to Winston Churchill on his leadership during World War II (1961), as quoted in "Churchill and the Jewish state" by Colin Shindle in The Jerusalem Post (27 December 2007) http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1198517221673&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Daniel Abraham (1969) speculative fiction writer from the United States
Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 30 (p. 330)
David Lange (1942–2005) New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
Source: National Business Review, 17/2/86.
Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States
Speech Speech at a Women for Obama rally http://screens.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/if-you-cant-run-the-white-house/, Chicago (August 2007). (YouTube video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN1qZMBE9Gc <br class="br">2000s
“Nobody wants to be called a racist, if in your heart you believe in equality of race”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2010s, 2010, Interview on Today (November 2010)
Context: I am not a hater. I don't hate Kanye West. But, I was talking about an environment in which people were willing to say things that hurt. Nobody wants to be called a racist, if in your heart you believe in equality of race.
“No ally is better than one’s own race.”
Kim Young-sam (1927–2015) South Korean politician
As quoted in "What the West gets wrong about North Korea’s motives, and why some South Koreans admire the North" http://theconversation.com/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-north-koreas-motives-and-why-some-south-koreans-admire-the-north-83639 (8 September 2017), The Conversation