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"We're quite lucky that we've got political freedoms. We should be using them."

Mark Thomas
"The causes which destroyed the ancient republics were numerous; but in Rome, one principal cause was the vast inequality of fortunes."

Noah Webster
"The rich get the assets, the poor get the debt, and then the poor have to pay their whole salary to the rich every year just to live in a house."

Gary Stevenson
"The principle of solidarity says, 'I will happily pay taxes so the kid across the street can go to school'."

Noam Chomsky
"So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough."

Shakespeare, King Lear (4.1)
"They have yet to consider that republicanism might largely be a cloak for oligarchic privilege—as it often is to this day—worn grudgingly by the elites as long as it proved serviceable to their interests."

Michael Parenti