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Tanuki

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11. Eugene V. Debs trie to tell us....

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Jan 20, 2017, 01:32 PM

Jan 2017

"In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People."

(Canton, OH, Anti-War Speech, June 16, 1918)”
― Eugene V. Debs, Voices of a People's History of the United States

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