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... levels. Scholars believe that the plague emanated from the Middle East through southern Russia, between the Black and the Caspian seas. Co... ...ing of successful - even brilliant - battles and coalitions with local warlords and politicians which culminated in the liberation of Peru. In 1824,... ...s. An Annexation Association was founded to promote unification with the prospering southern neighbor. The two versions of an Annexation Manifesto ... ...isted. Most of the Democrats accepted this solution. This led to a schism in the Democratic party. The "fire eaters" left it and established thei... ... of the Democrats accepted this solution. This led to a schism in the Democratic party. The "fire eaters" left it and established their own pro-s... ...o protect its trade with Britain. The constitution of the Confederacy prohibited African slave trade (buying slaves from Africa), though it allow... ...64, the Republicans became so unpopular, they had to change their name to the Union Party. Lincoln's vice-president, Johnson, actually was a Democr... ...n Shelton Laurel, North Carolina. The Ku Klux Klan was the paramilitary arm of the Democratic party in the South, though never officially endorsed ... ...mber of the executive committee of the London Vegetarian Society. He went to South Africa because he couldn't find work in India. He was a poor la...

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...zens, this much may be said in reply: That bill had been in the hands of a party to which Trumbull did not belong. It had been in the hands of the com... ... Judge Douglas has told me that he heard my speeches north and my speeches south; that he had heard me at Ottawa and at Freeport in the north and rece... ...me at Ottawa and at Freeport in the north and recently at Jonesboro in the south, and there was a very different cast of sentiment in the speeches mad... ...n regard to the Mexican War story the more respectable pa- pers of his own party throughout the State have been com- pelled to take it back and acknow... ...ole earth ever said so, until the necessities of the present policy of the Democratic party, in regard to slavery, had to invent that affirmation. And... ...o that division. Don’t you remember how two years ago the opponents of the Democratic party were di- vided between Fremont and Fillmore? I guess you d... ...on of slavery, denied the truth of it. I know that Mr. Calhoun and all the politicians of his school denied the truth of the Declaration. I know that ... ... the lawfulness of sla- very, but permitted the importation of slaves from Africa until the year 1808.” This is the entire quotation brought forward t... ...ction. Let me ask why they made pro- vision that the source of slavery—the African slave-trade— should be cut off at the end of twenty years? Why did ...

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...en of 1856 very differently from what they seem to [be] going in the other party. Below is the vote of 1856, in your district: Counties. Counties. Bu... ...ecome alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.” Judge Douglas makes use of the above quotation, and finds a great d... ...ion of Judge Douglas, and such were the opinions of the leading men of the Democratic Party. Even as late as the spring of 1856 Mr. Buchanan said, a s... ...e Douglas, and such were the opinions of the leading men of the Democratic Party. Even as late as the spring of 1856 Mr. Buchanan said, a short time s... ...ixty thousand mulattoes —and a large number of them were imported from the South. 17 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five FRAGMENT OF SPEECH A ... ...e a concise statement of the dif- ference, as I understand it, between the Democratic and Re- publican parties, on the leading issues of the campaign.... ...the public mind as a just principle, nationalizes slavery, and revives the African slave trade inevitably. Taking slaves into new Territories, and buy... ... from importing slaves 35 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five from Africa. As to Governor Chase, I have a kind side for him. He was one of the... ...appeal to you again to constantly bear in mind that with you, and not with politicians, not with Presidents, not with office-seekers, but with you is ...

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...tial to my issue. He is dead and gone, all his immediate correla- tions to party and faction have faded to insignificance, leav- ing only on the one h... ...vorce. I climbed high and fast from small beginnings. I had the mind of my party. I do not know where I might not have ended, but for this red blaze t... ...wall and rather tattered is a large yellow-varnished geological map of the South of England. Over the mantel is a huge lump of white coral rock and se... ...ose particular words, yet exactly in that manner, as he slouched along the southward road, with resentful eyes becoming less resentful as he talked, a... ... under- stand; Marx and Morris, the Chicago Anarchists, Justice and Social Democratic Federation (as it was then) presented so- cialism to our minds. ... ...ving been born and brought up in Bromstead and Penge, and the war in South Africa being yet in the womb of time, could quite honestly entertain the no... ...urning resentfully upon him for a common ignorance and assumption… . South Africa seems always painted on the back cloth of my Cambridge memories. How... ... as much as anything in life could have shocked him. Socialism as a simple democratic cry we had done with for ever. We were socialists because Indivi... ... from the North Country or the Potteries, here an island of South Lon- don politicians, here a couple of young Jews ascendant from Whitechapel, here a...

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... we have perished at the stake or faced the levelled muskets of the firing party—“No, do not bandage my eyes”—because we would not betray the secret p... ...ou feel very little. The worst moment is be- fore things happen. Rowe, the African sportsman, told me that he had seen cowardice often enough in the p... ...bstantial clearness. The jungle that bordered the little encampment north, south, and west seemed to have crept a little nearer, enriched itself with ... ... before she was twenty to marry Benham, whom she had idealized at a tennis party. He had talked of his work and she had seen it in a flash, the nobles... ...ssions that all ultimately re- solved themselves into an antagonism of the democratic and the aristocratic idea. And his part was, he found, to be the... ...e aristocratic idea. And his part was, he found, to be the exponent of the democratic idea. The next day he came down early, his talk with Benham stil... ...liberties, so now the world. Things as they are may be fun for lawyers and politicians and court people and—douaniers; they may suit the loan-mongers ... ...anned, but he had many walks that bristled with impressions. Northward and southward, eastward and west- ward a dreaming young man could wander into a... ...he elemental facts of a great social organization. It was having its South African war, its war at the other end of the earth, with a certain de- feat...

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...ors, wise women, soldiers and sail- ors in Egypt and China and Assyria and south-eastern Eu- rope at the beginning of that period, and they were doing... ...nise the prices cur- rent of his geographically distributed investments in South Africa, Japan, and Egypt, and tell the two children he had begotten (... ...he prices cur- rent of his geographically distributed investments in South Africa, Japan, and Egypt, and tell the two children he had begotten (in the... ...toler- ance, a trifle derisive, of the populace again—socialist ora- tors, politicians, a band, and the same wild uproar of dogs, frantic with the gla... ...patience of the American people with the monstrous and socially paralysing party systems that had sprung out of their absurd electoral arrangements, l... ...very complete. In theory—and he abounded in theory—his manners were purely democratic. It was by sheer habit and inadvertency that he permitted Firmin... ...of flaming destruction, statesmen whose countries had become chaos, scared politicians and financial potentates. Here were leaders of thought and lear... ...ge produce. They are bodies small enough as a rule to be run on a strictly democratic basis, and large enough to supply all the labour, except for a c...

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...igned supreme, she now opened her salon to the notabilities of the liberal party in Arcis. A woman accustomed to the advan- tages of salon royalty doe... ...ng to the famous seventeen who were called “Great Citizens” by the liberal party,—namely, Francois Keller, of the house of Keller Bros., the son-in-la... ...e ministry to promote the candidacy of a young and dashing officer then in Africa, attached to the staff of the prince-royal. “I think,” he said to hi... ...e family are now at Gondreville. Abd-el-Kader has resumed the offensive in Africa; the war is being vigorously carried on. This poor young man was amo... ...d sphere only,—inciting a people to rebel, tracking the secrets of austere politicians, and triumphing nowhere but in boudoirs and on the back- stairs... ...us conservatives, whereas Monsieur Dorlange inclines in a marked degree to democratic principles. This unexpected superiority in my problematical foll... ...e child told the truth. She only said, with her blunt simplicity, what our democratic customs still allow us to put in practice, though they forbid us... ... not to die in a common way. I myself have always had the idea of going to South America, where, not far from Paraguay, there is one of the greatest c...

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...the town. And here, they say, Alycus, the son of Sciron, was slain, of the party of the Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux), from whom a place in Megara, whe... ...nd confederacy with him. Fidenae he took, a neighboring city to Rome, by a party of horse, as some say, whom he sent before with commands to cut down ... ...ncertainty to be thought strange, seeing the manner of the death of Scipio Africanus, who died at his own home after supper, has been found capable ne... ...e. Some Greek writers also record this. But as for his voyages into Spain, Africa, and the Indies, and his conferences there with the Gymnosophists, t... ...e chief of the augurs covered Numa’s head, and turned his face towards the south, and, standing behind him, laid his right hand on his head, and praye... ...to make great innovations. The frame of govern- ment which Numa formed was democratic and popular to 128 V olume One the last extreme, goldsmiths and... ... ending had, to all observation, been neither rainy nor much troubled with southern winds; and of the many lakes, brooks, and springs of all sorts wit... ...t with the many and poor, contrary to his natural bent, which was far from democratical; but, most likely, fearing he might fall under suspicion of ai... ...ty- rants, and emulating and admiring Lycurgus the Lacedaemonian above all politicians, adhered to the aristocratical principles of government; and ha...

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...ot in ac- cord altogether. The sisters sat silent, waiting for the wedding party to come out. Gudrun was impatient of talk. She wanted to think about ... ...ceive her flare of recognition. The bride and bridegroom were married, the party went into the vestry. Hermione crowded involuntarily up against Birki... ...d ugly. But there were several negro statues, wood- 70 carvings from West Africa, strange and disturbing, the carved negroes looked almost like the f... ...ere the people go about naked.’ ‘Oh really!’ exclaimed Halliday. ‘Where?’ ‘South America—Amazon,’ said Gerald. ‘Oh but how perfectly splendid! It’s on... ...idly with his spirit the grey, forward-stretching face of the negro woman, African and tense, abstracted in utter physical stress. It was a terrible f... ..., handsome young Englishman, Alexander tall and the handsome politi- cian, democratic and lucid, Hermione strange like a long Cassandra, and the women... ...could never tell why Beldover was so utterly different from London and the south, why one’s whole feelings were differ- ent, why one seemed to live in... ...highest of flowers, hence its charm.’ ‘No,’ she cried, ‘no—never. It isn’t democratic.’ ‘No,’ he admitted. ‘It’s the golden mob of the proletariat, su... ... Then for days, Ursula saw the persistent, obtrusive birds as stout, short politicians lifting up their voices from the platform, little men who must ...

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...-In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast Asia 1 “. . .... ...es shot out. American researchers and other medical leaders streamed into southeast Asia for its open door policy for immigrant geniuses. The electi... ...r worst leader, was also a minority president. Guess it just shows that a democratic system is a hit or miss system for choosing a leader. I wonder i... ...nly about health care. Public pension funds have been insolvent for years. Politicians in democracies like to promise more benefits along with lower ... ...r—and we don‟t have near the money that Norway has. I don‟t know why your politicians think that people must be forced into retirement so that young... ...our international prestige! “While China develops relationships in Africa and Asia, your country is busy antagonizing one of the world‟s majo... ...he idea that all men are brothers or that we all are products of the same African origin. “So the low rate of population growth began to con... ...l system men generally get the voting rights long before women do. In the democratic U.S. only 10% of the senators are women. Contrast that with the ... ... billion dollars in pension funds. I remember when he had his housewarming party for a new house on Broadbeach Road in Malibu his rule was that anyon...

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... forest that most Koreans thought of as so beautiful. The way was straight, south and barren and made him almost yearn for the tortuous roads that ap... ... been his life support in the six months he resided in this foreign country, South Korea, which was his birth home and the source of his nationality. ... ...ng Ki gave Sang Huin his beeper number. Sang Huin invited him to a Christmas party held for students at a language institute but stayed contained to h... ...ned to tapping that seemed more like rain. Her thoughts rambled on: "800,000 African children die from dysentery each year and yet the news is about t... ...nd. It was very exciting-more than even a racket ball game with Betty whose African American skin, muscular physique, and strong competitive strife g... ...lessly, she fell into hysterical laughter at the sketch of an old woman in a party hat, who smiles on sweetly as her grandson, abandoning all of the p... ...be God's appointed bully of world events and His proponent of capitalism and democratic tyranny was the American myth. She often asked herself how she... ...." "Kennedy Smith of the Kennedy dynasty--are you from the family of wealthy politicians?" "No, nothing special. Hardware store." "A hardware tycoon.... ...d grammar!," she bantered. He smiled morosely. "The article said that in the Democratic Republic of Congo a door of a cargo plane fell open. The arti...

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... the people, he was disappointed, and lost the place, being opposed by the party of Sylla, which seems to have been the principal cause of his subsequ... ...ttempted to recall the lost in- terest of Marius, Sertorius joined Cinna’s party, more par- ticularly as he saw that Octavius was not very capable, an... ...cient to give him battle again, and Marius, also, now coming by sea out of Africa, proffered himself to serve under Cinna, as a private soldier under ... ...d men into New Carthage, where he took shipping, and crossed the seas into Africa. And coming near the coast of Mauritania, his men went on shore to w... ...terly lose their force before they reach the islands. The soft western and southerly winds which breathe upon them sometimes produce gentle sprinkling... ...ephaestion. Afterwards, when Nearchus, with a fleet, was to be sent to the Southern Sea, Alexander bor- rowed money of his friends, his own treasury b... ...e philosopher reports, that Polyeuctus, the Sphettian, one of the Athenian politicians about that time, was wont to say that Demosthenes was the great... ...im, and restore the commonwealth to the Syracusans; not that he approved a democratic government, but thought it altogether preferable to a tyranny, w... ...e that constitution he intended; for he designed to suppress the unlimited democratic government, which in- deed is not a government, but, as Plato ca...

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... his deafness, it matters not a straw whether he belong to a northern or a southern journal. Here is one evil of journal writing—viz., its overmasteri... ...s, in that final stage of her transmutations to which Cicero was himself a party—and, as I maintain, a most selfish and un- patriotic party. He was go... ...tributed. Coleridge ascended the Brocken on the Whitsunday of 1799, with a party of English stu- dents from Goettingen, but failed to see the phantom;... ...eatedly re- turned to England, and met my mother at watering-places on the south coast of Devonshire, &c. But I, as a younger child, had not been one ... ...t often the most aristocratic, yet also, for many noble purposes, the most democratic of lands. 2 Five years ago, during the carnival of universal an... ...lf. At the opening of the tale, a magician living in the central depths of Africa is introduced to us as one made aware by his secret art of an enchan... ...mountains for the winter. Rigor, therefore, there was; for the most humane politicians, erroneously, as one must believe, fancied it necessary for the... ... an unfortunate reserve of manner. Whilst, on the contrary, Mr. Fox, ultra democratic in his principles and frank in his address, was repulsively aris...

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...ing to Indus. Just a five hour flight on Singapore Airlines, still in the Southeast Asian part of the world--but what a universe of difference. From ... ...d this isn‘t just limited to Bangladesh. China, India, Mexico and parts of South America have the potential problem.(2) Nearly all of these problems ... ...xtremely poor people only dropped from 41 to 31%. ―In Sub-Saharan Africa the per-capita GDP dropped by 13%. With their rapid population grow... ...wants to grow. Then there is the conundrum of poor uneducated people. The democratic ideal and the socialistic goal is to equalize opportunities and ... ...e capital has been streaming into India as its potential unfolds. And the democratic government and economic freedom make India a safer bet for the ... ...cratic governmental takeovers of foreign owned assets in Russia, Southern Africa and northern South America, India is very safe. We plan to follow I... ... fledgling democracies and absolute monarchies to warring militias or one party rule—there are a bunch of hungry mouths crying for food while a numb... ...ook some time before she was able to overcome that political faux pas. We politicians learned our lessons—do what is necessary to win and carry out ... ... ―Some Indian states have mandated a maximum of two children for some politicians and some states are extending the mandate to civil servants. A...

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...reated by the continuous increases in the population. On the one hand some politicians and businessmen think that such increases are necessary. You... ...the impoverished. 9 “There are a couple of problems however. In a democratic world would the people of Connecticut vote for reducing their... ...hildren. Perhaps I am a romantic, but when I hear of infants being raped in Africa, I cry. Whether it is the superstition 10 that sex with a vir... ...her it is merely a sexual attack by a deranged coward—it should not happen. South Africa has the highest AIDS rate in the world. By 2020 AIDS had k... ... is merely a sexual attack by a deranged coward—it should not happen. South Africa has the highest AIDS rate in the world. By 2020 AIDS had killed ... ...reducing their native populations. Countries like Japan, Germany, Italy and South Korea would lose population if they didn’t take in immigrants from... ...dea. This is especially true in countries that call themselves religious or democratic because either God told us to have a bunch or babies or becau... ... And no child should be imprisoned to a life without opportunity. “Politicians make us happier by reducing our taxes while spending more. Th... ...ten. They have just as many abortions. They don’t follow the same political party lines in elections. They act as if they are secular—except for a f...

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...the Turks. In 1885, Bulgaria was at last united - north and formerly Turk-occupied south - under the Kremlin's pressure. The Turks switched sides a... ...d in both capacities he operated in the areas that are today North- Central Greece, Southwestern Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia. He felt equ... ...e tacit blessing of Tsar Boris and the forming National Alliance (later renamed the Democratic Alliance), they did away with the hated man. Follow... ... - a promise which he kept. The modern Republic of Macedonia is today ruled by a party called VMRO-DPMNE. It is one of a few political parties to... ...ble goals, no doubt. Yet instability is contagious, a lesson not learn by Serb politicians. Even as the Bosnian uprising was in progress, King ... ...pponents of his dictatorship, communists and anti-monarchists. He introduced a one-party, government-controlled electoral system. Thus, in an iro... ... parties but did not reinstate parliament. All this time, a Yugoslav opposition of democratic forces included Croat as well as Serb intellectuals a... ... the national average. Infant mortality was 6 times that in Slovenia. Kosovo was an African enclave in an otherwise Europe-aspiring country. Caught ... ... beating and incest. There are malignant narcissists among subsistence farmers in Africa, nomads in the Sinai desert, day laborers in east Europe,...

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...omewhere west of Tahiti. She found him in the hotel lobby but without his South Sea pareo. ----------------------... ...Hindu society we believe in the Upanishads and the Gita. If it is a truly democratic country we believe in certain humanistic principles. If it is a... ...rd to life? Why save the AIDS doomed child for a life of poverty in rural Africa when the child would be immediately accepted into Heaven upon death... ...nd the shortest route. That‘s why transatlantic flights go northwest then southwest, rather than directly west. But of course that‘s only a small par... ...on. The Vatican says they may not accept communion. ―Similarly, politicians who advocate abortion, which is a grievous sin, should be denie... ...ineer. To do this I must graduate from college. What if I want to go to a party with my friends now, but I have an important engineering test tomorro... ...ow? Which do I choose, the present desire or the future desire? I‘m at a party and recognize that I have had too much to drink but I want to go hom... ... have input from pressure groups, often with great financial sources. Our democratically elected representatives are nearly always beholden to someb... ... the ideas of a single supernatural. This idea spread to Europe, to North Africa and across the Atlantic, Most people in those areas believe in a si...

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...n‘t want the farmers going into the information technology businesses. But South Korea is just as high, and I don‘t know how many snow plows they ne... ...cotton is being raised, even though it isn‘t needed. Meanwhile sub- Saharan African countries are losing hundreds of millions of dollars a year in los... ...arm that real farming is decreasing. ―The realities of politics in a democratic-republic is that to get the necessary votes for a measure you ... ...he political consideration to make a state become beholden to the political party that gives it the most money. So you wouldn‘t expect politicians to... ...o the political party that gives it the most money. So you wouldn‘t expect politicians to let this sacred cow go un-milked. Consequently a large num... ...m to the top as quickly as has China. It‘s getting it right. And as former party leader Deng Xiaoping said ‗to get right is glorious.‘ 11 ... ...entific method that it applied to directing our society. While we have some democratic tendencies, enough to keep the people happy by thinking that t... ...eference for males and seldom use amniocentesis for sex selection. South Korea showed us the way when they reversed their male to female birt... ...istians rose to power they tortured the unbelievers. Islam conquered North Africa, India, and Spain and forced major societal changes. When trains r...

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... 3 PERIYAR, THE PROPHET OF THE NEW AGE THE SOCRATES OF SOUTH EAST ASIA FATHER OF THE SOCIAL REFORM MOVEMENT AND ARCH ENEMY ... ...stem. For six decades, he powerfully influenced the course of politics in the South- Indian state of Tamil Nadu. His ideology and struggle to attain... ...eader of mass organizations, he served as the State President of the Congress party, founded the Self- ... ...r p.103-113 of this book. 42 Respect Movement, was a leader of the Justice Party, later the Dravidar Kazhagam, he was undoubtedly a populist lea... ... in life and the caste-based occupation they had to follow hereditarily. In a democratic nation, one must have the right to choose ones profession. ... ...s that when Dalits live under fear during elections, they are denied even the democratic right to vote for a candidate of their choice. The expert... ...y based on this philosophy, Mahatma Gandhi carried out a Satyagraha in South Africa, and the Kenyan Boycott of Imperialism Day was celebrated. ... ...hese faults intact, and yet voicing support for the rights 124 of the South Africans and writing as if one has all concern for the Untouchables an... ...s notice and make them pass orders. If only the indifferent attitude of the politicians is going to be the answer, we will attain human rights by ...

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...original ecosystem we were genetically designed to function in…. That is; in Africa, where we originally came from, as naked apes who stood up and ... ...ht, smell and hearing, compete and survive during the seasonal drought of the African Veldt? The drying up of vegetation, waterholes, the migrating... ...riginal Runners. Who ran with the wild migrating herds in their yearly North- South migrations. As a result: they became slightly braver than Lion... ...was no such thing as a desert on Earth. The oldest desert is Namib Desert in Southern Africa: Reverse the name Namib Desert and you get Bi-man… yo... ...with the exception of the new recruits who had not yet taken part in a raiding party, or frequented a whore yet: literally all of Napoleon’s soldiers... ...nd will lead to chaos… and instability. Chaos is another code-word used by politicians and people in power. I myself have never seen this imagina... ...wer of the rich countries? If the poor countries ever get a middle class and democratic governments that actually enforce policies in the interest o... ...Government has systematically undermined, sabotaged and aborted any socialist/democratic movement in poor countries who want to improve their lot; b... ...indlessly abiding by the civilized laws and regulations, you yourself become a party to every corruption of that system. Thoreau insisted that in or...