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"The leader of the Party since its inception has been James Harting Madole, a balding, myopic, hawk-nosed forty-year-old bachelor who lives with his mother in a walk-up apartment on the upper West Side near Central Park. Madole dresses conservatively but his suits are worn; when I spoke with him, his eyes never once attempted to meet my gaze; and his handshake is limp and unenthusiastic. His mother, white-haired, stern-faced, with a mole on her lip, questioned me suspiciously about my motives in interviewing her son before I had even taken off my overcoat. By the time I was seated she was in the middle of a discourse on the Jews."

"Although Adolf Hitler is dead, his philosophy lives again in the growing strength of fascist forces in America, Europe and the Middle East. What Hitler accomplished in Europe, the National Renaissance Party shall yet accomplish in America."

"The ultimate destiny of man lies in the stars."

"Is John departed? and is Lilburn gone? Farewel to both, to Lilburn and to John, Yet being dead take this advice from me Let them not both in one grave buried be; But lay John here, lay Lilburn hereabout. For if they ever meet they will fal out."

"Lilburne's political importance is easy to explain. In a revolution where others argued about the respective rights of king and parliament, he spoke always of the rights of the people. His dauntless courage and his powers of speech made him the idol of the mob. With Coke's Institutes in his hand he was willing to tackle any tribunal. He was ready to assail any abuse at any cost to himself, but his passionate egotism made him a dangerous champion, and he continually sacrificed public causes to personal resentments. It would be unjust to deny that he had a real sympathy with sufferers from oppression or misfortune; even when he was himself an exile he could interest himself in the distresses of English prisoners of war, and exert the remains of his influence to get them relieved... In his controversies he was credulous, careless about the truth of his charges, and insatiably vindictive. He attacked in turn all constituted authorities—lords, commons, council of state, and council of officers—and quarrelled in succession with every ally."

"If the World was emptied of all but John Lilbourne, Lilbourne would quarrel with John, and John with Lilbourne."

"And for my owne part, the Lord himselfe hath so firmly by his owne enlightening Spirit so fully convinced me, and setled my soule so unmoveably his truth, that I assuredly know, that all the power in Earth, yea and the gates of Hell It selfe shall never be able to move me or prevaile against me, for the Lord who is the worker of all my workes in me and for me, hath founded and buit me upon that sure & unmoveable foundation the Lord lesus Christ and I know if ten thousand deaths for my conscience and the cause of my God, (for which with courage and rejoycing I now beare witnesse to, and am close prisoner in bonds, lying day and night in Fetters of Iron, both hands & legges) should be inflicted upon me, I should sing, rejoyce & triumph in them all."

"I am a Free-man, yea, a free borne Denizen of England, and I have been in the field with my sword in my hand, to venter my life and my blood (against Tyrants) for the preservation of my Freedome, and I doe not know that ever I did an act in all my life that disfranchised me of my freedome, and by vertue of being a Free-man, I conceive I have as true a right to all the priviledges that doth belong to a Free-man, as the greatest man in England, whatsoever he be, whether Lord or Commoner, and the ground and foundation of my Freedome, I build upon the grand Charter of England."

"GOD, the absolute Soveraign Lord and King, of all things in heaven and earth, the originall fountain, and cause of all causes, who is circumscribed, governed, and limited by no rules, but doth all things meerly and onely by his soveraign will, and unlimited good pleasure, who made the world, and all things therein, for his own glory, and who by his own will and pleasure, gave man (his meer creature) the soveraignty (under himselfe) over all the rest of his Creatures, Gen. 1.26.28.29. and indued him with a rationall soule, or understanding, and thereby created him after his own image, Gen. 1.26.27. and 9.6. the first of which was Adam, a male, or man, made out of the dust or clay, out of whose side was taken a Rib, which by the soveraign and absolute mighty creating power of God, was made a female, or Woman cal'd Eve, which two are the earthly, original fountain, as begetters and bringers forth of all and every particular and individuall man and woman, that ever breathed in the world since, who are, and were by nature all equall and alike in power, dignity, authority, and majesty, none of them having (by nature) any authority dominion or majesteriall power, one over or above another, neither have they, or can they exercise any, but meerely by institution, or donation, that is to say, by mutuall agreement or consent, given, derived, or assumed, by mutuall consent and agreement, for the good benefit and comfort each of other, and not for the mischiefe, hurt, or damage of any."

"For my part I look upon the House of Commons, as the supream Power of England, who have residing in them that power that is inherent in the people, who yet are not to act according to their own wils and pleasure, but according to the fundamentall constitutions, and customes of the Land, which I conceive provides for the safety and preservation of the people."

"I am not against the Parliaments setting up a State-Government for such a Church as they shall thinke fit, to make the generality of the Land members of, for I for my part leave them to themselves, to doe what they shall thinke good, so that they leave my Conscience free to the Law and Will of my Lord and King."

"It all matters, what you read, what you watch and listen to. Take care of your health. Nothing in life is handed to you, embrace hard work. In everything you do, look out for balance; not perfection."

"Captain Murray, if you please, Make it hours instead of days, You know, it becomes an Irishman To drown the shamrock when he can."

"My name is Frank MacNamara, A native of Cashell, County Tipperary, Sworn to be a tyrant's foe And while I've life I'll crow."

"Farewell Tasmania's isle! I bid adieu The possum and the kangaroo. Farmers' Glory! Prisoners' Hell! Land of Buggers! Fare ye well."

"Among other things, Bedriu told me, to tell Tuku, not to sell the spoils at once, because according to his opinion, this situation would continue for a long time and that Bedriu told me that they were in a tight economic situation , but they did not sell the spoils. He continued and told me that; they say about me that I had 400,000 lek, they say this to discredit us, that we allegedly took measures for this situation. When we parted, we held each other's necks and shook my hand and he told me that; You are the first communist to whom I expressed my thoughts."

"We talked a little with Nado on the train and she told me that; Bedriu thinks that our problems are not being solved, and that in his opinion, as far as he listened to the radio, he said that even in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, not all things were in order. Then they met with Nado in September 1956, where the District Committee of Tirana was, I had then come from Berat and she came from Elbasan, and we met near the former Executive Committee of the Tirana district. She told me; u Dhora, they will say that we have made an appointment. We both agreed to meet in the flower garden before "Dajti", but I didn't go."

"From the first meeting I had with Bedri Spahiu until the end, I gave this information to Cvetozar Vučič, an official of the Yugoslav Legation, giving him the claim, the proceedings of the trial of Koçi Xoxes, which I got from the collection of the newspaper "Zeri i Populli". I also gave Cveto, the first conversation with Bedri Spahiu, as well as his opinions until the end."

"In June 1956, I met Bedri and her wife in the flower garden near the "Dajti" hotel. Bedriu told me that he knew that I had moved to Gjirokastër, but that I told him that I will not go to Gjirokastër, and for that, I would sell a piano forte and live in Tirana. Bedriu told me that; what I thought was impossible, because they won't buy the piano and they won't let you compose songs."

"Party today is a matter of honor. During this conversation, we walked ten to fifteen steps together, and without talking about anything else, we parted."

"But he advised me to leave for Gjirokastër, because it is a good people. Bedriu told me that he had been looking for Tuku all morning, that he had heard that he had come. I told him that Tuku had come to Tirana for dinner with his mother and had left in the morning, that I had not met him either. Bedri then told me that; how he ran away at once and expressed regret that he did not meet. Since this day, I have not met Bedri, while I met Nedo in July on the train, by chance when I was traveling from Tirana to the beach of Durrës."

"Moroccan women’s battle for their rights has been an uphill one. Yet, they fought it with valor, steadfastness and self-abnegation."

"Lack of public housing, poverty, illiteracy, street violence, rape, lack of opportunities and entrenched corruption are all aspects of the Morocco that Oum Hamza is fighting against."

"This type of grievance cannot be resolved by legislation only or by paying lip service to women’s rights in the most solemn of ways. The resolution of these issues requires realpolitik and practical results."

"The man and the woman enjoy, in equality, the rights and freedoms of civil, political, economic, social, cultural and environmental character, enounced in this Title and in the other provisions of the Constitution, as well as in the international conventions and pacts duly ratified by Morocco and this, with respect for the provisions of the Constitution, of the constants of the Kingdom and of its laws. The State works for the realization of parity between men and women. An Authority for parity and the struggle against all forms of discrimination is created, to this effect."

"Your story will never be forgotten. We know the pain of our country and it needs us to be strong.The fight of the people will never die on our watch."

"Those times we had proper allies and companionship. We did it for the love of our people. This country needs more love – we don’t have this now."

"Many people have passed without telling their stories. We will cement our history, like the statues we see of Jan van Riebeek and Cecil John Rhodes in the city, but no memories of our struggle heroes. Don’t let the free South Africa die with us."

"We are still a young democracy and people are still very mad about many things. I believe we should transform as a society. We need to create a dialogue and space for people to talk about the trauma of the past and a space for the young people to read about it."

"It was amazing to see the active engagement and this inspired me to try to start a discussion with my then torturer."

"Thank you for not forgetting who you are and where you come from."

"Imagine if you were given a name by your parents to identify you, and someone took it away and replaced it with a number? It’s the worst thing for a human."

"No one can tell your story better than you, because you experienced it. I urge the veterans to pen your stories – tell your stories."

"I relived the trauma of solitary confinement, but I am much relieved that I’ve achieved this."

"Even if instead of me and Ismail, you put all five thousand Hafttepe workers in front of the camera and force them to confess with whips and batons, it will still not detract from the essence of the story that you are oppressors and corrupt."

"The beatings begin. His name is Ismail... he is an Arab... They ask him the name of the operation, he shouts in Arabic: I don't know, the tortures are getting more and more and the torturers are shouting "impure! Speak Persian." The sound of torture is so painful that it hurts me too."

"My ghostly fader, I me confesse, First to God and then to you, That at a window,—wot ye how?— I stale a cosse of grete sweteness."

"Réveiller le chat qui dort."

"Oncques feu ne fut sans fumée."

"Jeu qui trop dure ne vault rien, Tant va le pot à l'eau qui brise."

"The smylyng mouth and laughyng eyen gray, The brestis rounde and long smal armys twayne."

"Chose qui plaist est à demy vendue."

"N’est elle de tous biens garnie, Celle que j'ayme loyaument?"

"Soit qu'elle danse, cante ou rie, Ou face quelque esbatement, Faictes en loyal jugement, Sans faveur et sans flatterie."

"Tout à part moi en mon penser m'encios, Et fais chasteaulx en Espaigne et en France."

"Elle a beaux yeulx et ne voit goutte."

"A trompeur, trompeur et demy."

"C'est une dangereuse épargne D'amasser tresor de regrets."

"L'habit le moine ne fait pas."

"Life has, for Beukes, become like a gangster movie, filled with"