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They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.
Hirohito
People
Superior
Depend
Other
Divine
Myths
Mere
Emperor
Conception
False
Legends
Japanese
Japanese People
Races
America has a critical place to play in the end of extreme poverty.
Hugh Evans
Poverty
Extreme
Extreme Poverty
Critical
End
America
In The End
Place
Play
Global poverty is the product of reversible policy failures overseen by politicians, past and present. The poorest of the poor don't vote in American or European elections. They don't make donations to political parties or hire lobbyists in D.C., London or Canberra.
Hugh Evans
Vote
Political
Poverty
Past
Politicians
Lobbyists
London
Failures
Global
Parties
Make
Policy
Hire
Political Parties
American
Canberra
Donations
Poor
Poorest
Elections
Product
European
Present
The Global Poverty Project's mission is to stand up for the world's poorest people. We fight for the full funding of Millennium Development Goals and advocate meaningful change to government and corporate policies that block progress and entrench injustice.
Hugh Evans
Government
Injustice
Change
Fight
People
World
Progress
Goals
Poverty
Corporate
Project
Development
Global
Mission
Policies
Advocate
Block
Up
Meaningful
Poorest
Stand
Full
Stand Up
Millennium
Funding
I will burn your city, your land, your self.
Hulagu Khan
Will
City
Self
Burn
Land
Your
There is not a single injustice in Northern Ireland that is worth the loss of a single British soldier or a single Irish citizen either.
James Callaghan
Injustice
Worth
Citizen
Single
Soldier
Loss
Ireland
Irish
Northern
Northern Ireland
Either
British
If the law is a bad law, there is always the contingent right to take action that you would not otherwise take.
James Callaghan
You
Law
Action
Otherwise
Bad
Would
Take
Always
Contingent
Right
There are no instant solutions.
James Callaghan
Solutions
Instant
I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
James Douglas
Thoughts
Living
Think
Tree
Borne
Like
Blossoms
Human
I always felt that a governor surrenders a certain amount of privacy. And I came to accept that.
James Douglas
Privacy
Accept
Felt
Always
Came
Governor
Certain
Amount
The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.
James Douglas
People
Better
Security
No Idea
Small
Had
Idea
Were
Than
Where
Communities
Who
Well, I don't think so, because the president and members of Congress and governors have the same constituents. It's the American people who are hurting.
James Douglas
People
Congress
Think
President
Members
Constituents
Hurting
Well
Because
Governors
American
Same
American People
Who
I've made a commitment that state spending in Vermont won't grow any more than the rate of inflation plus population growth.
James Douglas
Commitment
Inflation
Made
State
Spending
Plus
Rate
More
Vermont
Than
Any
Grow
Population
Population Growth
Growth
I think the governors would all agree that what we don't want from the federal government is unfunded mandates.
James Douglas
Government
Think
Would
Federal
Federal Government
Governors
Mandates
Want
Agree
To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Good
Training
Moral
Physical
Least
Condition
Much
Requires
Every little thing counts in a crisis.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Every
Crisis
Counts
Little
Little Thing
Thing
Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Best
Type
Highest
Advantage
Obviously
Material
Existing
Efficiency
Which
Utilize
The man who has gotten everything he wants is all in favor of peace and order.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Man
Peace
Everything
Favor
He
Gotten
Order
Wants
Who
Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Me
Long
Action
Gives
Am
Itself
Convinced
Satisfaction
Right
The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Danger
Runs
More
Himself
Very
Than
Person
Quietly
Who
Away
Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.
Jefferson Davis
Evil
Master
Whatever
Every
Diffusion
Increased
Immediate
Harshness
Diminished
System
Must
Objectionable
Proportion
Between
Knows
Understand
Becomes
Familiar
Wherever
Less
Slave
Slavery
To increase the power, develop the resources and promote the happiness of a Confederacy, it is requisite there should be so much of homogeneity that the welfare of every portion would be the aim of the whole.
Jefferson Davis
Happiness
Welfare
Power
Every
Increase
Aim
Resources
Would
Would-Be
Promote
Develop
Confederacy
Much
Should
Requisite
Whole
Portion
Homogeneity
If there is to be peace in our industrial life let the employer recognize his obligation to his employees - at least to the degree set forth in existing statutes.
John L. Lewis
Life
Peace
Obligation
Degree
Employees
Our
Recognize
Employer
Industrial
Least
His
Existing
Forth
Set
In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.
John L. Lewis
Organization
Collective
Corporations
Collective Bargaining
Steel
Generally
Industrial
Industry
Accepted
Wage
Committee
Bargaining
Agreements
While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.
John L. Lewis
Rights
Progress
Made
Men
Defense
Elsewhere
Steel
Through
Hosts
Advancing
Industry
Permanent
Were
Blood
Labor
Intelligent
Families
Front
Going
Being
While
Homes
Gas
The men in the steel industry who sacrificed their all were nor merely aiding their fellows at home but were adding strength to the cause of their comrades in all industry.
John L. Lewis
Home
Strength
Cause
Men
Comrades
Adding
Steel
Sacrificed
Merely
Industry
Fellows
Were
Nor
Who
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