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" The U.N. charter bars the threat of force. "

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" I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state. "

" If you don't like what someone has to say, argue with them. "

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" Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute. "

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" In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society. "

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" As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression. "

" I like Gramsci. He's an important person. "

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" The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched. "

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" If a child from an Amazonian hunter-gatherer tribe comes to Boston, is raised in Boston, that child will be indistinguishable in language capacities from my children growing up here, and vice versa. "