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"To take all the coal in the U.S. and raise the price when there is no need of it, and thus kill thousands of babies, send thousands to the poorhouse and send tens of thousands to jail -- this is a greater crime than all the people in our jails ever committed."
--Clarence Darrow in his 1902 address to the prisoners of the Cook County Jail. The Norton Reader, 4th ed., New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1977, p. 451.
"You will be amazed to find how many times in one day people glance at your nails. At each glance a judgment is made. Indeed, some people make a practice of basing their estimate of a new acquaintance largely upon this one detail."
--Cutex advertisement in early 20th century women's magazine. Ladies' Home Journal, April 1920.
"They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane....They would make fine servants. With 50 men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."
--Christopher Columbus in his ship's log after the Arawak Indians discovered him on their beach. Howard Zinn, A people's History of the United States, New York: Harper Perennial, 1990, p. 1.
"Civil government, so far it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all."
-- Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Wealth of Nations, 1776, p. 674.
"In the generation of nuclear energy, man-made hazards seem unavoidable, but bankruptcy strikes us as a needless risk."
--Article on the nuclear power crisis at Three Mile Island in Barron's, 3/23/81.
"La paz no es un objecto encontrado por casualidad, es el producto de la igualdad entre los hombres." (Peace is not a thing found by chance, it is the product of equality among people.)
-- Phrase on a mural in Oruro, Bolivia.
"There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows."
-- Katherine Graham, owner of the Washington Post. Joel Bleifuss, In These Times, 2/19/92.
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