Mikhail Kalinin quotes
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“If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely.”
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“You must remember that we persecute nobody for religion. We regard religion as an error and fight it with education.”
-- Mikhail KalininSource : "Stalin's Holy War: Religion, Nationalism, and Alliance Politics" by Steven Merritt Miner, (p. 109), 2003.
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“The national question is purely a peasant question...the best way to eliminate nationality is a massive factory with thousands of workers..., which like a millstone grinds up all nationalities and forges a new nationality. This nationality is the universal proletariat.”
-- Mikhail KalininSource : "The Affirmative Action Empire" by Terry Martin, (p. 147), 2001.
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“The Jews will become socialist colonisers with strong fists and sharp teeth, a strong national group within the Soviet family of nations.”
-- Mikhail KalininSource : "Inside the Middle East" by Dilip Hiro, (p. 232), 1982.
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“For thousands of years humankind's finest minds have been struggling with the theoretical problem of finding the forms that would give peoples the possibility, without the greatest of torment, without internecine strife, of living side by side in friendship and brotherhood. Practically speaking, the first step in this direction is only being taken now, today.”
-- Mikhail KalininSource : "Survivor From An Unknown War: The Life of Isakjan Narzikul" by Stephen Lee Crane, (p. 3), 1999.
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“But even now, after the greatest victory known to history we cannot for one minute forget the basic fact that our country remains the one socialist state in the world. You will speak frankly about this to the collective farmers...Only the most concrete, most immediate danger, which threatened us from Hitlerite Germany, has disappeared.”
-- Mikhail KalininSource : "The Soviet Union Since World War II" by American Academy of Political and Social Science, Philip Edward Mosely, (p. 4), 1949.
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“The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.”
-- Mikhail KalininSource : "USSR Information Bulletin", (p. 322), 1942.
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Source : Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly
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Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
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Source : Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. March 20, 2008.
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“Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.”
Source : "Can this 'venture philanthropist' save our schools?". www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.
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“I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.”
Source : "Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul discuss their cutthroat relationship on 'Breaking Bad'". Interview with Glenn Whipp, articles.latimes.com. June 10, 2010.
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“The things that happen on the sea take you beyond yourself, beyond human capability.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.179, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“The human race has improved everything, but the human race.”
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