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In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.

—Christopher Hitchens

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1998Capital-PunishmentCapital-Punishment-In-The-Us
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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

—George Bernard

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The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by the prints of clogs. This was March, but the weather had been horribly...

—George Orwell

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The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the thing worked for it distorts all the relations of life.

—Edith Wharton

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The poor, I am told, are kind to each other but that is because they have nothing to lose,’ he said. ‘The rich cannot afford to be.

—M.R.C. Kasasian

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In the privacy of my dreams, I’m a warrior.

—Kimberly Derting

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For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies only to them. The many simply have to work harder,...

—Charles Moore

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Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They more or less inherit them. Against this unearned patrimony there have always been...

—Christopher Hitchens

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The streets are a poor kid’s PlayStation™

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn’t pretend that...

—Christopher Hitchens

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This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.

—Ursula K. Le Guin

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