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For every attempt made by marginalized people to express anguish and seek change for historical (and ongoing) harm, there’s always pushback from those who demand that we suffer only in the expected ways, express that suffering with an ...more
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Howard Zinn
“The system, in its irrationality, has been driven by profit to build steel skyscrapers for insurance companies while the cities decay, to spend billions for weapons of destruction and virtually nothing for children’s playgrounds, to give huge incomes to men who make dangerous or useless things, and very little to artists, musicians, writers, actors. Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.”
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States

Niccolò Machiavelli
“…he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.”
Machiavelli Niccolo, The Prince

Howard Zinn
“In 1969, there were 502 convictions for tax fraud. Such cases, called “white-collar crimes,” usually involve people with a good deal of money. Of those convicted, 20 percent ended up in jail. The fraud averaged $190,000 per case; their sentences averaged seven months. That same year, for burglary and auto theft (crimes of the poor) 60 percent ended up in prison. The auto thefts averaged $992; the sentences averaged eighteen months. The burglaries averaged $321; the sentences averaged thirty-three months.”
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States

Howard Zinn
“The United States government had signed more than four hundred treaties with Indians and violated every single one.”
Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States

V (formerly Eve Ensler)
“What is a man cast out of the kingdom of men?”
Eve Ensler, The Apology

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