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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the galleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor---he speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation---he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city---he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared.--- Cicero: orator, statesman, political theorist, lawyer and philosopher of Ancient Rome........................................................ ......................................During the 1st Century AD, Roman satirist Juvenal coined the term "Panem et Circenses" to describe the method by which Roman Caesars would exert control over the populace. Translated as "Bread and Circuses," Juvenal was poking fun at how easy it was for the Caesar to make Romans forget important matters of society and state and instead focus on feasting and revelry.............................................."That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race; That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained." – English translation of 1968 Speech delivered to the United Nations by Halie Salassie and popularised in a song called War by Bob Marley...