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“How skillful to tax the middle class to pay for the relief of the poor, building resentment on top of humiliation! How adroit to bus poor black youngsters into poor whit neighborhoods, in a violent exchange of impoverished schools, which let the schools of the rich remain untouched and the wealth of the nation, doled out carefully where children need milk, is drained for billion dollar aircraft carriers. How ingenious to meet the demands of black people and of women for equality by giving them small benefits, and setting them in competition with everyone else for jobs made scarce by an irrational, wasteful system. How wise to turn the fear and anger of the majority toward a class of criminals bred- by economic necessity - faster than they can be put away, deflecting attention from the huge thefts of national resources carried out w/in the law by men in executive offices.”
― Zinn (1990)