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Attending upon a prince is as dangerous as keeping company with a tiger. Attending upon a prince is as dangerous as keeping company with a tiger.

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danger | politics

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Tyranny is fiercer than a tiger. Tyranny is fiercer than a tiger.

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government | politics | despotism

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The water which supports a boat can also sink it. The water which supports a boat can also sink it.

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support | politics | organization

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From the way the grass bends, one can know the direction of the wind. From the way the grass bends, one can know the direction of the wind.

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trends | politics

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It's like pushing marbles through a sieve. It means the sieve will never be the same again. It's like pushing marbles through a sieve. It means the sieve will never be the same again.

before the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami

social change | politics | feminism

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Just imagine for a moment what life in this country might have been if women had been properly represented in Congress. Would a Co... - MORE Just imagine for a moment what life in this country might have been if women had been properly represented in Congress. Would a Congress where women in all their diversity were represented tolerate the countless laws now on the books that discriminate against women in all phases of their lives? Would a Congress with adequate representation of women have allowed this country to reach the 1970s without a national health care system? Would it have permitted this country to rank fourteenth in infant mortality among the developed nations of the world? Would it have allowed the situation we now have in which thousands of kids grow up without decent care because their working mothers have no place to leave them? Would such a Congress condone the continued butchering of young girls and mothers in amateur abortion mills? Would it allow fraudulent packaging and cheating of consumers in supermarkets, department stores and other retail outlets? Would it consent to the perverted sense of priorities that has dominated our government for decades, where billions have been appropriated for war while our human needs as a people have been neglected?

Bella Abzug

values of women | politics | influence of women

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I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Cou... - MORE I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am —and this ought to be made very clear—I am a very serious woman.

Bella Abzug

assertiveness | politics | Judaism and Jewish people

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Ratcliffe was a great statesman. The smoothness of his manipulation was marvelous. No other man in politics, indeed no other man w... - MORE Ratcliffe was a great statesman. The smoothness of his manipulation was marvelous. No other man in politics, indeed no other man who had ever been in politics in this country, could—his admirers said—have brought together so many hostile interests and made so fantastic a combination. Some men went so far as to maintain that he would "rope in the President himself before the old man had time to swap knives with him." The beauty of his work consisted in the skill with which he evaded questions of principle. As he wisely said, the issue now involved was not one of principle but of power.

Henry Brooks Adams

politics | Ratcliffe, Silas P.

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There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other i... - MORE There are two things that seem to be at the bottom of our constitutions; one is a continual tendency towards politics; the other is family pride; and it is strange how these two feelings run through all of us.

Henry Brooks Adams

families | politics

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The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings or ... - MORE The spectacle [of American politics] resembles that of swarms of insects changing from worms to wings. They must get the wings or die. For our salvation, Mr. Wilbur Wright is providing wings. He will also have to provide a new insect to use them.

Henry Brooks Adams

politics

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