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"I'm all for fighting tyranny and oppression."

"Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key."

"Always stick to the story. It was when you started backtracking that people got in trouble. Interrogation 101."

"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary."

"A right delayed is a right denied."

"And one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy."
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"If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright."


"If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping."


"OEDIPUS:O, O, O, they will all come,all come out clearly! Light of the sun, let melook upon you no more after today!I who first saw the light bred of a matchaccursed, and accursed in my livingwith them I lived with, cursed in my killing."
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