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“A person of good intellignce & sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality – it's not just a bleeding heart, knee jerk, liberal kind of thing – it's just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavoured dental floss & there are people sleeping in the street.”
George Carlin
“He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life & found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
P. G. Wodehouse
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iving to charities is considered noble & praiseworthy, but creating a society that doesn't require charity is considered socialist & bad.”
Anon
“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest & most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
Hannah Arendt
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“A society that produces billionaires whilemillioms go hungry isn't successful; its broken. I don't think we should have billionaires. Full stop.”
Zohran Mamdani
“Medicare for all. -”That's socialism!”
Social security. - “That's socialism!”
Debt free education. “That's socialism!”
Universal child care. “That's socialism!”
$1trillion + in tax cuts for the wealthy...
“That's just how it is.”
Robert Reich
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“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
FDR
“The wicked become even worse when they are tolerated.”
Leo Tolstoy
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“You will never find justice in a world where criminals make the rules.”
Bob Marley
“Every tyrant fears a thinker.”
Voltaire
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“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security & indepence. People who are hungry & out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.”
FDR
“I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.”
Barbara Kingsolver
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“If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for 10 years, plant trees.
If your plan is for 100 years, educate children.”
Confucious
“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”
Aesop
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