Peter Kropotkin :
America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.
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Politicians and Politics
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Freedom
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America
Gift it
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