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"I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights."
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"When you a get a job you are not qualified for, it will be evil to you and to your community."
"If we don't confront those things that are wrong, it gets worse."
"So it came to this, that- against the grain, no doubt-the condemned man had to hope the apparatus was in good working order! This, I thought, was a flaw in the system; and, on the face of it, my view was sound enough. On the other hand, I had to admit it proved the efficiency of the system. It came to this; the man under sentence was obliged to collaborate mentally, it was in his interest that all should go off without a hitch."
"In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though he thinks he is serving it. From this point of view, we shall deny to the very end that a press is true because it is revolutionary; it will be revolutionary only if it is true, and never otherwise."
"Lack of luxury is not a reason to push others to poverty."
"If he is a God of justice, people must see his justice on earth."
"Actually, everyone, in one way or the other is being insulted by ungodliness and injustice, be it racial injustice, inequality, economic injustice, and the spread and campaign of ungodliness sweeping the land."
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"I recognized that information was, in many respects, like a public good, and it was this insight that made it clear to me that it was unlikely that the private market would provide efficient resource allocations whenever information was endogenous."
"Amherst is a liberal arts college, committed to providing students with a broad education."
"I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights."
"I went to Amherst because my brother had gone there before me, and he went there because his guidance counselor thought that we would do better there than at a large university like Harvard."
"Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom."
"Amherst was pivotal in my broad intellectual development; MIT in my development as a professional economist."
"Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation."
"The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities."
"But individuals and firms spend an enormous amount of resources acquiring information, which affects their beliefs; and actions of others too affect their beliefs."
"The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy."
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