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"If you look at the data, the inner city that was the riot zone lost 55,000 jobs in the ten years from 1992 to 2002, instead of gaining a surplus of 50,000."
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"Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs."

"Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do."

"Jobs should be offered on the basis of merit and not 'Seefarish'"

"We have drastically reduced leakages in the Employment Guarantee scheme and ensured that money reaches those for whom it is intended. We have focused on creating durable assets that benefit the population, rather than the touts."

"To some people, employment is a distraction. To all entertainers, distraction is employment."

"The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite."

"Most employees are smarter than their employers. All employers are braver than their employees."

"I made the mistake of using my earned sick time at the W. M. Keck Observatory for essential surgery. When I returned to work the management team demanded my resignation numerous times, citing my essential surgery as a reason. The W. M. Keck Observatory taught me that using earned sick time in the USA may put your future employment at significant risk."

"Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits."

"Employment frees man from the nightmare of unemployment, while it chains him to his employer's dream."
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"The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970."


"I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission."


"The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members."


"I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered."


"I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A."


"Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout."


"Most centrist Democrats... try to distance themselves from controversies that recall the 1960s. There are journalistic centrists as well, who avoid hard truths for the sake of acceptance and legitimacy."


"The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI."
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