While classes exist no one is free.
We are not born to be slaves or to be masters.
We are born to be brothers and sisters.
What is capitalism but buying and selling of people?

Mientras haya clases no hay libertad.
No hemos nacido para ser peones
ni para ser patrones
sino para ser hermanos
sino para ser hermanos hemos nacidos.
Capitalismo ¿qué otra cosa que compra-venta de gente?

Ernesto Cardenal

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Topic

Class conflict Power relations Equality Brotherhood Social hierarchy

Author

Ernesto Cardenal

Source

Canto Nacional

Medium

Poem

Genre

Political literature

Language

Spanish

Time

1972 1970s 20th century

Occupation

Clergyman Poet Writer

From

Nicaragua Central America

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Citation

Cardenal, Ernesto. Canto nacional. Ediciones Carlos Loblé, 1973.

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If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. I think that the worst you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

Woody Allen

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Topic
Nature of God Existence of God God
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Genre
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Time
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Calvin Coolidge

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Topic
Equality Political progress Political theory American founding
Speaker
Calvin Coolidge
Medium
Speech
Genre
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Language
English
Time
1926 1920s 20th century
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Citation

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Another quote originally in Spanish

Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

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Topic
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Author

Miguel de Cervantes
Source
Don Quixote
Medium
Novel
Language
Spanish
Time
1615 1600s 16th century
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Original Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Segunda Parte Del ingenioso caballero don Quixote de la Mancha [The Second Part of Don Quixote de la Mancha]. Spain: Francisco de Robles, 1615.

Current Citation

De Cervantes, Miguel. Don Quixote, translated and edited by John Rutherford. Penguin Classics, 2003.