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"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."
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"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."
"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."
"Some people sit at life' banquet table while others serve them."
"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."
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"Oppression has been in existence as long as man himself has been in existence."
"The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune."
"Rather than evoke our sympathy, our familiarity with the lives of the black poor has bred spasms of fear and outright contempt. But mostly it's bred indifference."
"The problem is that rich are getting richer by not giving and poor and getting poorer by not receiving."
"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."
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