Barack Obama

"I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."

-- Barack Obama, President of the United States.
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Who Rules America

G. William Domhoff’s "Who Rules America? Power and Politics" is a classic best seller. Domhoff suggests America’s corporate community, the basis for a social upper class, have developed a policy-planning and opinion-shaping network that give them the means to shape the policies of interest within the federal government.
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Angela Davis

"I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement."

-- Angela Davis, American political activist.
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Bernard Baruch

"We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat."

-- Bernard Baruch, American statesman.
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A Civil Action

A Civil Action is a 1998 film base on the Jonathan Harr novel. It tells the real-life David versus Goliath story of a water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts in the 1980s. A small-time law firm wins the class-action fight for cancer-victim families while experiencing its own demise.
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John F. Kennedy

"If by a Liberal they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people, someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, then I'm proud to say I'm a Liberal"

-- John F. Kennedy, President of the United States.
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Liberal

The word liberal has its roots in the Latin term liberalis, meaning of freedom or relating to freedom. According to the website myetymology.com, the earliest known usage of the word liberal in the English language dates back to the 14th century. The word became common in everyday speech during the Age of Enlightenment during the 17th and 18th centuries.
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