Word: motherlands
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...party, or even of national, spirit among men. Even supposing impartial history could be made readable, the stunting effect of philosophical detachment upon young people's emotional equipment would be fearful to contemplate. They might never have the slightest desire to rush out to war for the motherland. They might reason so broadly about government that fine old political issues would become meaningless and forgotten, and states would perhaps fall into the hands of dreadfully efficient automatons like the ones Mr. Shaw and Mr. Wells put in their books, with no axes to grind, no slogans to shout...
...Dominions speak of us as the motherland and of our Parliament as the mother of Parliaments. I think that the insistence on the word 'mother,' which is affectionate in intention, makes that a tribute to something of old age, if not senility, in regard to our institutions...
...please vacate the chair and come over to join me in this stand. I know and understand the British laws and it so far as they are concerned of plead guilty'. Mr. Gandhi added that according to the eternal law of truth he was right in loving his motherland and that if not sentenced he would continue pursuing his policies in the interest of the freedom of his country and the vindication of the principle that he held true. Mr. Gandhi, who made the work of the trial so simple and brief, was sentenced to six years imprisonment without further...
...creation of a world-wide Negro super-government to control and guide the destinies of the race ("just as the Pope and Catholic Church control their millions in every land") until such provisional administration would be able to proclaim to the world the recovery of the African motherland and the establishment of a Black Parliament to take its place among representative institutions of free and sovereign peoples...