1848

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The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto

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Revolution Class conflict Oppression Politics

Author

Karl Marx

Source

The Communist Manifesto

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature Economic literature

Language

German

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

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Original Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels [published anonymously]. Manifest der kommunistischen Partei [Manifesto of the Communist Party]. London: Gedruckt in der Office der Bildungs-Gesellschaft für Arbeiter, 1848.

Current Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto, translated by Samuel Moore and Friedrich Engels. Penguin Classics, 2002.

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto

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Topic

Class conflict Oppression History

Author

Karl Marx

Source

The Communist Manifesto

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature Economic literature

Language

German

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels [published anonymously]. Manifest der kommunistischen Partei [Manifesto of the Communist Party]. London: Gedruckt in der Office der Bildungs-Gesellschaft für Arbeiter, 1848.

Current Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto, translated by Samuel Moore and Friedrich Engels. Penguin Classics, 2002.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto

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Topic

Ruling class Class conflict History of ideas Ideas

Author

Karl Marx

Source

The Communist Manifesto

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature Economic literature

Language

German

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels [published anonymously]. Manifest der kommunistischen Partei [Manifesto of the Communist Party]. London: Gedruckt in der Office der Bildungs-Gesellschaft für Arbeiter, 1848.

Current Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto, translated by Samuel Moore and Friedrich Engels. Penguin Classics, 2002.

A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto

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Topic

Communism

Author

Karl Marx

Source

The Communist Manifesto

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature Economic literature

Language

German

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels [published anonymously]. Manifest der kommunistischen Partei [Manifesto of the Communist Party]. London: Gedruckt in der Office der Bildungs-Gesellschaft für Arbeiter, 1848.

Current Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto, translated by Samuel Moore and Friedrich Engels. Penguin Classics, 2002.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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Topic

Women's equality Equality Feminism Declaration of Independence

Speaker

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. "Declaration of Sentiments." Women's Rights Convention. 19 July 1848, Wesleyan Chapel, Seneca Falls, NY, USA.

In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto

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Topic

Class conflict End of war Political theory

Author

Karl Marx

Source

The Communist Manifesto

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature Economic literature

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

German

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei [Manifesto of the Communist Party]. London, 1848, pt. 2.

Current Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto, translated by Samuel Moore and edited by Gareth Stedman Jones. Penguin Classics, 2015, pt. 2.

The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto

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Property rights Communism Political theory Politics

Author

Karl Marx

Source

The Communist Manifesto

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature Economic literature

Language

German

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels [published anonymously]. Manifest der kommunistischen Partei [Manifesto of the Communist Party]. London: Gedruckt in der Office der Bildungs-Gesellschaft für Arbeiter, 1848.

Current Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto, translated by Samuel Moore and Friedrich Engels. Penguin Classics, 2002.

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.

Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto

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Topic

Life under capitalism Capitalism

Author

Karl Marx

Source

The Communist Manifesto

Medium

Pamphlet

Genre

Political literature Economic literature

Language

German

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels [published anonymously]. Manifest der kommunistischen Partei [Manifesto of the Communist Party]. London: Gedruckt in der Office der Bildungs-Gesellschaft für Arbeiter, 1848.

Current Citation

Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto, translated by Samuel Moore and Friedrich Engels. Penguin Classics, 2002.

The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Topic

Tyranny Martyrdom

Author

Soren Kierkegaard

Source

Journals of Soren Kierkegaard

Medium

Personal journal

Language

Danish

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. Journal entry. c. 1848.

Current Citation

Kierkegaard, Soren. The Journals of Kierkegaard, translated by Alexander Dru. Harper Torch, 1959.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic

Revolution Government

Speaker

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Speech in United States House of Representatives: The War with Mexico

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech in United States House of Representatives: The War with Mexico." 12 Jan. 1848, US House of Representatives, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "Speech in the U.S. House of Representatives on the War with Mexico, January 12, 1848." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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Custom and convention Self-righteousness Hypocrisy Moral theory Morality

Author

Charlotte Brontë

Source

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, 2nd ed. London: Service and Patton, 1848, preface.

Current Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, preface to the 2nd ed.

And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days.

James Russell Lowell

The Vision of Sir Launful

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Topic

June Summer

Author

James Russell Lowell

Source

The Vision of Sir Launful

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Lowell, James Russell. "The Vision of Sir Launfal." The Vision of Sir Launfal and Other Poems. Cambridge: George Nichols, 1848, st. 5.

Words, so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Topic

Power of words Power of literature Literature Writing

Author

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Source

Journals of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Journal entry. 18 May 1848.

We have no eternal allies and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and these interests it is our duty to follow.

Henry John Temple

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Topic

Realpolitik International politics Political theory

Speaker

Henry John Temple

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Temple, Henry John. Address in the House of Commons. House of Commons meeting. 1 Mar. 1848, Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator God
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.

John Clare

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Solitude Wilderness Spending time in nature

Author

John Clare

Source

I Am

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Clare, John. "I Am." The Bedford Times, 1 Jan. 1848, I. 13.

Current Citation

Clare, John. "I Am." John Clare: Major Works, edited by Eric Robinson and David Powell. Oxford University Press, 2008, I. 13.

I heartily accept the motto,—"That government is best which governs least";... Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe,—"That government is best which governs not at all."

Henry David Thoreau

The Relation of the Individual to the State

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Anarchism Limited government Political theory

Author

Henry David Thoreau

Source

The Relation of the Individual to the State

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Thoreau, Henry. "The Relation of the Individual to the State." 26 Jan. 1848, Concord Lyceum, Concord, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Thoreau, Henry. "Civil Disobedience." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison... The only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor.

Henry David Thoreau

The Relation of the Individual to the State

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Injustice

Author

Henry David Thoreau

Source

The Relation of the Individual to the State

Medium

Essay

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Thoreau, Henry. "The Relation of the Individual to the State." 26 Jan. 1848, Concord Lyceum, Concord, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Thoreau, Henry. "Civil Disobedience." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.

Cecil Frances Alexander

All Things Bright and Beautiful

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Topic

God and creation

Author

Cecil Frances Alexander

Source

All Things Bright and Beautiful

Medium

Hymn Song

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Alexander, Cecil Frances. "All Things Bright and Beautiful." Hymns for Little Children. Joseph Masters, c. 1848.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair

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Topic

Hurting others Family

Author

William Makepeace Thackeray

Source

Vanity Fair

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Thackeray, William Makepeace. "Vanity Fair." Punch, Jan. 1847-July 1848. Monthly serial.

Current Citation

Thackeray, William Makepeace. Vanity Fair, edited by John Carey. Penguin Classics, 2013.

Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose—and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

Abraham Lincoln

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Topic

Preemptive war Executive power War

Author

Abraham Lincoln

Source

Letters of Abraham Lincoln

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1848 1840s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. Letter to William H. Herndon. 15 Feb. 1848.

Current Citation

Lincoln, Abraham. "To William H. Herndon, Febrary 15, 1848." Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, edited by Don E. Fehrenbacher. Library of America, 1989.