<span>Brief Translation:
Many leaders have tried, and will try in a world of sin and sadness. No-one pretends that voting is perfect. Yes, it has been said that voting is the worst type of government except all those other types that have been tried.
Basically he's saying that democracy (voting) is better than other ways to elect a government.</span>
Millions of people moved during the Industrial Revolution. Some simply moved from a village to a town in the hope of finding work whilst others moved from one country to another in search of a better way of life. Some had no choice, transportation was a punishment for some crimes.
D.) He saw the United States as an oppressive, occupying force that was evil and harmful to Islam