Christopher Saunders

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The Weimar Years Rise and Fall 1918-1933

by Frank McDonough

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Sep 28, 2024 07:40PM

“As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
― Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln Letters

tags: america, bigotry, despotism, equality, hypocrisy, know-nothings, race, racism, russia, tyranny

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“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell

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“The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”
― Maximilien Robespierre

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“The Running Man is a sci-fi action story based on a novel by Stephen King, built around a nightmare vision of America in 2017—thirty years from when we were shooting. The economy is in a depression, and the United States has become a fascist state where the government uses TV and giant screens in the neighborhoods to distract people from the fact that nobody has a job.”
― Arnold Schwarzenegger, Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

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