Karol Libelt Quotes
The time has come to expiate the fatal deed of Poland’s partition, and to safeguard a free Germany by raising the bulwark of an independent Poland against the onset of the Asiatics.
Karol Libelt, 1807-1875, Polish philosopher, writer, politician, revolutionist, and social activist, March 1847
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Russia had partitioned Poland into a Western part inhabited by Poles and many ethnic Germans, and an Eastern part of Poles and ethnic Russians. The latter was made part of Czarist Russia.
Arguing that the Arabs will never agree willingly to a Jewish state:
Mobutu with Amerucan CIA and French assistance deposed Lumumba, murdered him, and seized power.
See the American ambassador’s assessment after the war began {41089}
Franco based much of his state on the Fascist examples of Germany and Italy at the time.
There had been terrible religious wars between Catholics and Protestants in English history. The Protestants finally won and the Anglican Church of England became the “official” state church, but as England became a Democracy the power of the prelates and the church receded. However, there were fears of Catholic politicians in England that they were “controlled by the Pope” and if Catholics were too heavily part of the political system, the Pope might control and dominate English policy. Inge, one of the highest ranking Anglican clerics, allayed this fear, not by denying that the Popes and the Vatican might be interested in gaining more influence in England, but by appealing to the independence of the average Englishman and diminishing the spectre of the Pope by referring to him as an “Italian Priest.” As Inge and other high ranking Anglicans were in the English power system only English Priests. Inge at the time saw the Roman Catholic Church as a narrow, intolerant, monolithic anti modern institution. See {615671}. He argued that fear was inappropriate not because of the nature pf the Roman Church, but because of the characteristics of Englishmen, American Protestants had similar fears and Al Smith was defeated as President mainly because he was Catholic. For all but the worst religious bigots, this fear ended in America with the election of JFK.
“Volk” loosely translated means “the people.” However it carries the connotation of a unity that “the people” does not.
Karol Libelt was a Polish philosopher, writer, political and social activist, social worker and liberal, nationalist politician, and president of the Poznań Society of Friends of Learning.
