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

"Employee' is a label given to a creature that could not hold on to its dream."

"An employee is sheep. His employer is the shepherd. His salary is grass."

"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."

"We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs."

"Since NAFTA was put in place, Mexico has lost 1.9 million jobs and most Mexicans' real wages have fallen."

"I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux."

"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."

"Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs."

"Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to equal it at Citibank."
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"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi."


"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 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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