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" I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence. "
David Wooster
Dying
Strong
Independence
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Cokie Roberts
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" To me, both the Declaration of Independence and the Communist Manifesto contain underlying truths, but the West doesn't permit a middle road. "
Sukarno
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" What you get free costs too much. "
Jean Anouilh
You
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" I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months. "
Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Remember
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" The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. "
Marshall McLuhan
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Independence
World
" In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature. "
Edmund Morgan
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" The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man. "
Norma Shearer
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" When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration. "
Marvin Ammori
Men
History
Reality
" If a newspaper is to be of real service to the public, it must have a big circulation: first, because its news and its comments must reach the largest possible number of people; second, because circulation means advertising, and advertising means money, and money means independence. "
Joseph Pulitzer
Advertising
Money
People
" Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence. "
Bassem Youssef
Amazing
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Independence
" I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much. "
Saul Alinsky
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Own
Organization
" We need to make sure people continue to have access to retirement plans because everyone deserves the opportunity to retire with dignity and financial independence. "
Charles Boustany
Opportunity
Financial
People
" U.K. Athletics needs to develop a financial independence so it no longer has to be subject to the whim of politicians. If you are reliant on government, there is a big problem. "
Lynn Davies
You
Independence
Government
" Democracy is not the end point of mankind. There may be developments in many different directions in the coming centuries. Democracy has only existed for about 200 years. It started out with the American Declaration of Independence. The Americans got their ideas from the Europeans, in the main from the French, the Dutch and the British. "
Helmut Schmidt
Democracy
Started
End
" The idea of the Songun revolution is an idea of giving importance and precedence to military affairs in implementing the masses' cause of independence, the socialist cause, and pushing ahead with the overall revolution and construction with the revolutionary army as the core force. "
Kim Jong-un
Construction
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Revolution
" 'But,' say the puling, pusillanimous cowards, 'we shall be subject to a long and bloody war if we declare independence.' On the contrary, I affirm it the only step that can bring the contest to a speedy and happy issue. "
Samuel Adams
Step
Independence
Long
" As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents. "
Gavyn Davies
Independence
Long
Me
" Our government leaders... have made many mistakes in the past when they have lost sight of the sacred American values rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. We are at the brink of even graver mistakes and assaults on these values. "
Samuel Dash
Constitution
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Mistakes
" My mother was an activist; so was my father. They came from a generation of young Somalis who were actively involved in getting independence for Somalia in 1960. "
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" The good man is he who rules himself as he does his own property: his autonomous being is modelled on material power. "
Theodor Adorno
Power
Good
Good Man
" It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. "
James A. Baldwin
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Country
Mind
" Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence. "
Edmund Morgan
Long
American
Independence
" I think boarding school does give you an independence. "
Deirdre O'Kane
You
School
Independence
" My wife knows that I thrive on independence, and whatever girls live with me must know that, too. They must realize I have a certain respect for my wife and love for my children, and my work comes pretty much ahead of all that. "
Don Ho
Work
Respect
Me
" I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, while some others, like owls, courted concealment and were too much afraid of losing their roosts to leave them for such a cause. "
William Wallace
Face
Myself
Losing
" Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they are going to die for their independence. "
Paul Robeson
People
India
Independence
" At the time of independence in 1975, Mozambique was extremely poor. Many Portuguese residents abandoned the country, leaving only a handful of well-educated Mozambicans to try to run the country. "
Henning Mankell
Run
Country
Try
" Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. "
George Bernard Shaw
Earth
Us
Class
" I joined the People's Armed Forces in 1961 to 1984, and I was also a soldier in the southern battle of Vietnam during the resistance against the Americans. I went to the battlefield in order to regain national independence. "
Nguyen Tan Dung
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People
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" All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination. "
Carles Puigdemont
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