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The color of a person's skin had nothing to do with the content of their character.

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Friedrich Engels

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Civilization, Day, Driving, Greed, Philosophical
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The British Labour movement is today, and for many years has been, working in a narrow circle of strikes that are looked upon, not as an expedient, and not as a means of propaganda, but as an ultimate aim.

Expedient, Labour Movement, Mean, Working, Years

Bare-faced covetousness was the moving spirit of civilization from its first dawn to the present day; wealth, and again wealth, and for the third time wealth; wealth, not of society, but of the puny individual, was its only and final aim.

Civilization, Dawn, Moving, Present, Spirit

Firstly, the farmers, the most stupid set of people in existence, who, clinging to feudal prejudices, burst forth in masses, ready to die rather than cease to obey those whom they, their fathers and grandfathers, had called their masters; and submitted to be trampled on and horse-whipped by.

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It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste.

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Political economy came into being as a natural result of the expansion of trade, and with its appearance elementary, unscientific huckstering was replaced by a developed system of licensed fraud, an entire science of enrichment.

Appearance, Expansion, Political, Replaced, Trade
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