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"You see, the poverty program for the last five years have been buy-off programs."
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"Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics."
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"An old African leader says about leadership, he says that leadership should never be shared; it should always remain in the hands of the dispossessed people. We will lead the revolution."
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"But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down."
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"I say violence is necessary. It is as American as cherry pie."
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"There is no such thing as a black middle class."
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"After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money."
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"One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with."
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"You can have your titular recognition. I'll take money and power."
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"You name it, we're out there with the latest and the best cutting edge."
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"Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody."
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"My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense."
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"Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep."
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"I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system."
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"In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it."
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"Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!"
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"The reason that everybody likes planning is that nobody has to do anything."
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"We have to be realistic about what the state can afford, and put an end to abuses of the system that cost millions."
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"Several unions have agreed to larger employee contributions for their members. Taxpayers are living with cuts and making sacrifices to deal with the reality of California's budget crisis, state workers are going to have to do the same."
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"We have to deal with where we are. We have to create cooperatives, we have to create intentional communities, we have to work for local cooperation where we are."
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"Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change."
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"The conventional viewpoint says we need a jobs program and we need to cut welfare. Just the opposite! We need more welfare and fewer jobs."
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"Inaction may be the biggest form of action."
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"Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?"
Hell,
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"We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of let's-take-care-of-one-another. That's the creative challenge."
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"When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer can know, who am I buying this from? What's their name? Do they have a face? Is the food they are selling coming out of Mexico with pesticides?"
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"Pension reform can be hard to talk about. In the long run, reform now means fewer demands for layoffs and less draconian measures in the future. It's in the best interest of all Californians to fix this system now."
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"Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division."
51

"Jobs for every American is doomed to failure because of modern automation and production. We ought to recognize it and create an income-maintenance system so every single American has the dignity and the wherewithal for shelter, basic food, and medical care. I'm talking about welfare for all. Without it, you're going to have warfare for all."
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"It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet."
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"The government is becoming the family of last resort."
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"Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight."
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"I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition."
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"The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose."
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"Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes."
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"How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles!"
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"He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace."
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