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"The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people?Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?"
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"Free speech has been used by the Supreme Court to give immense power to the wealthiest members of our society."
"I hate my country. There are so many rich people who don't share their shit. They're like spoiled little ten-year-old bullies on the playground. They hog the monkey bars and the slide and the seesaw. And if you complain even a little bit, if you try to get just one spin on the merry-go-round, the bullies beat the shit out of you."
"For their holidays: the rich's kids travel the world, the poor's kids roam around their grandparents' yard."
"The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites."
"The system that had grown up in most states is that wealthy districts with an affluent population can afford to spend a lot more on their public school systems than the poorer districts."
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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."
"How unjust then to meet that person you love, and be kept away from them only because ones bed is made of hay , and the other, feathers."
"The division is based on knowledge, based on qualifications - but as I learned from the factionless, a system that relies on a group of uneducated people to do its dirty work without giving them a way to rise is hardly fair."
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"This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her advice in the face of melancholy is: 'Think about all the suffering in the world and be thankful you're not part of it.' My advice is: 'Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself, think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy."
"What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is."
"Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again."
"Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live."
"If I only knew how much longer we had to put up with each other's company, I'd start counting the days."
"Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself, think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy."
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