Oscar Arias Quotes
On Dec. 1, 1948, after the triumph of the revolution, which insured the final victory of the will of the people expressed through elections, President Jose Figueres abolished the army in my country.
Arias Sánchez, Óscar. "Nobel Lecture." NobelPrize.org, Nobel Prize Outreach AB, 10 Dec. 1987.
China, after overthrowing the Manchu Dynasty was struggling among many factions for control of the government.
In the election of 1800, the Jeffersonian republicans were pitted against the John Adams Federalists. The latter had seen the revolution as against the excesses of England and King George and not necessarily against the notion of a class society where government served the interests of the upper class—a political battle that is still with us to some extent. The Jewish religion generally recognizes no right of theocratic authority of one man over others with all to follow the laws of God, was theologically very republican. Rabbis were teachers and had no theological or civil authority. To Nones and many other Jews the Jeffersonian ideals were very close to their religious and cultural tradition and to the extent that there has been a party of the classes and a party of the masses, most Jews had gravitated to the latter with the exception of merchants, bankers and others whose economic interests were with the right of center party.
This quotation is a great demonstration of how much wiser and the better politician of all the crowned heads of Europe that Queen Victoria was. There were stirrings of freedom and desire for parliamentary government throughout Europe. Queen Victoria, even though and perhaps because she was a young woman, had a great feel for fairness and reasonableness and had read a great deal of history. There were some radical red socialists calling for complete radical revolution scaring European Royalty profoundly. They reacted very conservatively and with reaction, reverting to more tyrannical practices of the past urged in that path by very conservative, right wing advisors. Victoria also had little respect for some of the monarchs who had little interest in their people and much with their personal power and wealth. In the end, it was England which was the only nation which never had a serious radical socialist / communist threat, and that had much to do with Victoria’s political acumen and wisdom.
He had been exiled to the United States.
In 1905, she and her husband—young, intellectual middle class, revolutionists from Moscow—escaped from the Czar’s secret police and emigrated to America where until 1917, she feared assassination by Czarist agents in America. After the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act were passed, she felt that all her utopian, communist dreams had been fulfilled--in America. But Russia, in many ways, were as bad then as in the days of the Czars. See {634475} and {634476} for her views on communism. Many of the American “leftist communists” were great admirers and lovers of America except for the legal and governmental support of segregation. When that went, America was their ideal.
He was the first American citizen who was assassinated by the Central Intelligence Agency by means of a drone attack. He was a major recruiter for Al Qaeda, and he preached to 3 of the 9-11 terrorists.
This was a rebellion of the Irish natives of Ulster against the English Protestants land owners and the English settlers. In addition to the desire for liberty as this proclamation formally states, the rebels were mostly Roman Catholics whose religion had been almost destroyed the thought by the English component of the Protestant Reformation. 12 years after this proclamation, he was executed.
After the first Arab Spring revolution ousting Mubaric, a military dictator, the Egyptians elected a leader, Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood. Morsi then abused his powers and tried to turn Egypt into a theocracy. Huge popular protests against the Muslim Brotherhood led to el-Sisi leading a military coup where the army took over the government. Then they held elections, el-Sisi resigned from the military, and ran for President and won by a large percentage even though a small proportion of the population voted.
He was in a Turkish Prison when he made this statement. Some of his more militant PKK followers rejected the statement assuming that it was coerced. Most agreed and were tired of a fight against an overwhelmg Turhish military and police. However the PKK militsntd, devclsred terrorists by the US and many other nations, killed 40,000 Turks including many Kurds who are and have been an ethnic minority in Turkey who have been treated very badly..
Óscar Arias Sánchez is a Costa Rican activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1987 for his efforts to end the Central American crisis. He was also a recipient of the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism and a trustee of Economists for Peace and Security. In 2003, he was elected to the board of directors of the International Criminal Court's Trust Fund for Victims.
