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Social-issues Quotes
"Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation."
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"One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing."
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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."
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"Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism."
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"Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity."
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"In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state."
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"It does seem really hard to get consumers to do the right thing. It is stupid that we use two tons of steel, glass, and plastic to haul our sorry selves to the shopping mall. It's stupid that we put water in plastic bottles in Fiji and ship it here."
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"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."
8
"Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments."
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"Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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']"
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"When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner."
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"Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world's resources. How do men and women, boys and girls, live lives of compassion, justice and love? And I think that's the visionary challenge for feminism and all other progressive movements for social change."
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"Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own."
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