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...organized banking interests which own the railroads, control credit and dominate the industrial life of the nation, will further oppress labor, rob the consumer, and, by extortionate railroad rates and dictation of the terms of credit, reduce agriculture to the level of the European peasantry, if longer permitted to control this Government...
...must stop the money from going to Peking to buy arms to kill us, just as your forefathers stopped taxation going to the English coffers by throwing English tea into Boston Harbor. Has the country of Washington and Lincoln foresworn its faith in freedom and turned from liberator to oppress Ask the officers and men of the American warships to ponder this before they shoot...
...from three plays. These fifty quotations are to be "placed," interpreted, discussed, information supplied as the case may require (vague paraphrases not acceptable), and parallel passages quoted. Among the sub-divisions appear the following: "A man forbid." "The valued file." "Cabin'd cribb'd, confined." "Indent with fears." "Did oppress our rest...
Even before this, however, a man should strive for a spotless reputation. Live an honorable life. Never degrade a woman or oppress and cheat the weaker. Be honest, sincere, candid and generous, not only with one's time and money, but in one's opinions of other men. For it is now in College that the judgments of one's contemporaries are formed, and they are the ultimate tribunal in life. A man's reputation is continually forming among men, even those who may never have seen or spoken to him. Now is the time to look forward...
Professor Channing expressed no sympathy for the Boers. They were fighting not for independence, but for the right to oppress the Anglo-Saxons living in the Transvaal. The promise of naturalization was illusory and hedged round with so many restrictions that the Transvaal government could at any time make it invalid...