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Bread and roses – slogan, poem, and song associated with suffrage and labor movements Eat the rich – political slogan associated with anti-capitalism and left-wing politics ; originally traced to Jean-Jacques Rousseau , who is reputed to have said, "When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich."
bread and circuses: satisfaction of shallow or immediate desires of the populace at the expense of good policy; also, the erosion of civic duty and the public life in a populace. government in the sunshine : a government which keeps all its records and documents open and easily accessible by the public.
The full speech is generally regarded as the most eloquent ever delivered in Congress. The slogan itself would later become the state motto for North Dakota. "Our Federal Union. It must be preserved", toast famously made by Andrew Jackson during a formal gala commemorating Thomas Jefferson's birthday on April 13, 1830.
16. "The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.” John F. Kennedy, Former U.S. President. 17. “Voting is not only our right—it is our power.”
But the supposed hero of the common man is still claiming you need an ID to buy a loaf of bread.” Perhaps it’s a topic that could be explored at a Republican primary debate if he dared to ...
"Bread and Roses" is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song. It originated in a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd ; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses too" [ 1 ] inspired the title of the poem Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim . [ 2 ]
Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.
Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...