"The gap between the committed and the indifferent is a Sahara whose faint trails, followed by the mind's eye only, fade out in sand."

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"Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008."

Lindsey Graham, American Politician

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"The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day."

Samuel Gompers, American Activist

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"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."

Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher

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"One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing."

Emma Goldman, Lithuanian Activist

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"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony."

Emma Goldman, Lithuanian Activist

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"Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments."

Bob Goodlatte, American Politician

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"Between shortage and absolute poverty an ocean of shades and gradations do emerge on the scale of deficiency. Be that as it may, each stage must find a mode to leave a door ajar for the sun to peer in and human warmth to radiate. [' Homeless down in the corner']"

Erik Pevernagie, Belgian Author

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"It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay."

Cory Doctorow, Canadian Journalist

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"Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness."

Daniel Goleman, American Author

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"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."

Samuel Gompers, American Activist

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"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."

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"Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008."

"The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day."

"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."

"One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing."

"Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony."

"Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments."

"Between shortage and absolute poverty an ocean of shades and gradations do emerge on the scale of deficiency. Be that as it may, each stage must find a mode to leave a door ajar for the sun to peer in and human warmth to radiate. [' Homeless down in the corner']"

"It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay."

"Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness."

"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."

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"The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable."

"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."

"Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity."

"The facts are always less than what really happened."

"People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped."

"There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice."

"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter."