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"The unemployment rate is still twice as high for blacks as for whites."
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"The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves."
"Some people sit at life' banquet table while others serve them."
"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."
"When the rich and the powerful rise they leave the powerless and the poor without possibility."
"In that day an educated rich man was acceptable. He might send his sons to college without comment, might wear a vest and white shirt and tie in the daytime of a weekday, might wear gloves and keep his nails clean. And since the lives and practices of rich men were mysterious, who knows what they could use or not use? But a poor man""what need had he for poetry or for painting or for music not fit for singing or dancing?"
"Median wages of production workers, who comprise 80 percent of the workforce, haven't risen in 30 years, adjusted for inflation."
"Our world needs brutality and cruelty to sustain its equality and justice. Without it, handsome guys and beautiful ladies will fuck everyone they want. And we all ugly people will wait holding our dicks in our hands."
"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."
"Inequality was the price of civilization."
"For their holidays: the rich's kids travel the world, the poor's kids roam around their grandparents' yard."
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"I suggest to you that increasing the size of America's economic pie - which can be achieved only if everybody has a seat at the table - is the most important challenge facing our country today."
"One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties."
"My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep."
"I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me."
"It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free."
"In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong."
"If we have major geographic areas within our continent that have a tremendous lack of economic opportunity, we found that that is going to produce instability _ economic, political and social."
"Liberals often don't see the problems, and conservatives don't see the promise, of government."
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