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"The time for revolt is now, and the time for revolt is always!"
"Complaining is a vain way of explaining pain without gaining relief. Keep complains distances away from you."
"Don't complain. It's just a way of explaining your pains for no gains. Wake up to your calling... Wear a positive move and say your desires to God!"
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"After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms."
"Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art."
"As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor."
"Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development."
"It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance."
"The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision."
"What is needed now is a transformation of the major systems of production more profound than even the sweeping post-World War II changes in production technology."
"Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it."
"By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth."
"The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die."
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