"There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society."

Constance Baker Motley, American Activist

Society,

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"Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?"

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible."

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"Rootlessness," I opine, "is the twenty-first century norm.""You're not wrong and that's why we're in the shit we're in, mate. If you belong nowhere, why give a tinker's toss about anywhere?"

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"The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It is not enough for me to wear dark sunglasses and a wig. The wheelchair gives me away."

Stephen Hawking, English Physicist

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"A lot of attention has been given over to the Catholic Churches sexual abuse of children in their care, but this attention seems to have been hijacked by the media and has overshadowed the many thousands of victims that endured physical abuse."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"The meanest most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man and then qualifies it with a 'but'."

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"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions."

James A. Baldwin, American Novelist

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"Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike."

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"The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath."

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"New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere."

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"The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina."

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"Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down."

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