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“The problems we face, did not come down from the heavens. They are made, they are made by bad human decisions, and good human decisions can change them.”
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“The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.”
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“The most recent estimate is that a mere 400 individuals in the United States now own more wealth than the bottom 180 million Americans taken together -- a degree of wealth concentration that is accurately, not rhetorically, properly designated medieval.”
― What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
― What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
“Rioting is not a movement. It is not an act of civil disobedience. I think it is a mistake for people to consider disorganized action, mayhem, and attacks on other people and property as an extension of any kind of movement. It is not. It is simply an explosion of emotion. That's all. There is nothing constructive about it. It is destructive.”
― Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
― Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
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