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"The Fed's policies have been an unqualified success for financiers and an abject failure for the bottom 99.5% who have to work for a living."
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"In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases."
"Whether democracy or aristocracy is the better form of government constitutes a very difficult question. But, clearly, democracy inconveniences one person while aristocracy oppresses another. That is a truth which establishes itself and precludes any discussion: you are rich and I am poor."
"For their holidays: the rich's kids travel the world, the poor's kids roam around their grandparents' yard."
"Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence."
"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?"
"The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving."
"When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility."
"There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust between people, health problems and social exclusion - but it seems to be very difficult for people to understand this simple relationship."
"The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites."
"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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"I'm strong because I know my weaknesses. I'm wise because I've been foolish. I laugh because I've known sadness."
"The best investors are visionaries-they look beyond the present. By the same token, vision remains vision until you focus, do the work, and bring it down to earth where it will do some good."
"Don't ever be afraid to show who you really are, because as long as you are happy with yourself, no one else's opinion matters."
"Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot."
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters."
"Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow."
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