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Society was cut in two: those who had nothing united in common envy; those who had anything united in common terror.


Alexis de Tocqueville


#terror #poverty

It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.


Marilynne Robinson


#poverty

We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.


Lilly Ledbetter


#american #because #court #decision #equal

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar


Henry David Thoreau


#class #poverty #society #architecture

People who go to work every day and perform the services essential to keeping our economy functioning deserve to live above the poverty level.


Marcy Kaptur


#day #deserve #economy #essential #every

These Americans are among the working poor with full-time jobs earning $5.15 an hour. Millions fall into this boat, even more when you consider that the poverty line has not been adequately adjusted to reflect the true level of poverty in this country.


Marcy Kaptur


#adjusted #among #been #boat #consider

Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow.


Ryszard Kapuscinski


#amin #before #breaking #everybody #everything

Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.


James Thurber


#another #bewilderment #love #love is #overtakes

We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it.


Ernst Toller


#become #frozen #longer #overthrow #revolution

I was introverted, shy. But if you win a lot you need to be extroverted, or they'll think you're arrogant.


Alberto Tomba


#extroverted #i #introverted #lot #need