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"In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases."
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"The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves."

"When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility."

"In that day an educated rich man was acceptable. He might send his sons to college without comment, might wear a vest and white shirt and tie in the daytime of a weekday, might wear gloves and keep his nails clean. And since the lives and practices of rich men were mysterious, who knows what they could use or not use? But a poor man""what need had he for poetry or for painting or for music not fit for singing or dancing?"

"For their holidays: the rich's kids travel the world, the poor's kids roam around their grandparents' yard."

"When men decided women could be educated - this is what I think - they educated them on the male plan; they put them into schools with mottoes and school songs and muddy team games, they made them were collars and ties. It was a way to concede the right to learning, yet remain safe; the products of the system would always be inferior to the original model. Women were forced to imitate men, and bound not to succeed at it."

"Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence."

"Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses."

"Nothing reminds one of how shitty inequality is more often than the fact that there are companies who make and people who use 1-ply toilet papers."

"The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune."

"There are no clean victories for black people, nor, perhaps, for any people. The presidency of Barack Obama is no different. One can now say that an African American individual can rise to the same level as a white individual, and yet also say that the number of black individuals who actually qualify for that status will be small. One thinks of Serena Williams, whose dominance and stunning achievements can't, in and of themselves, ensure equal access to tennis facilities for young black girls. The gate is open and yet so very far away."
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"We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass."

"The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour."

"History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."

"The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it."

"The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."

"In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
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