"The blood of three oppressed races runs in my veins."

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“I am proudest of my Negro extraction.”

“Jehovah … gave his worshippers the supreme example of ideal laziness; after six days of work, he rests for all eternity.”

“Philanthropy means to steal wholesale, and give away retail.”

“When, in our civilized Europe, we would find a trace of the native beauty of man, we must go seek it in the nations where economic prejudices have not yet uprooted the hatred of work. … The Greeks in their era of greatness had only contempt for work: their slaves alone were permitted to labor: the free man knew only exercises for the body and mind. … The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.”

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— Sophia Tolstaya

Art1844–1919

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— Michelle Obama

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"The path to a democratic and equitable order is through the expansion of public courts, not the creation of private courts with questionable transparency, accountability or independence."

— Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

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