#si

When I was a boy, I was taught never to use insulting expressions like, 'I've been gypped,' or, 'He welshed on the deal.' ↗

— Dick Gregory

#boy #deal #expressions #i #insulting

You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#avenue #brand #done #harlem #know

Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession. ↗

— William Greider

#bankrupt #bottom #economic #economic policy #economy

As the world's finest democracy, we do not do guillotines. But there are other less bloody rituals of humiliation, designed to reassure the populace that order is restored, the Republic cleansed. ↗

— William Greider

#cleansed #democracy #designed #finest #humiliation

If we have wealth, it will be protected from inflation and possibly even enhanced in value. ↗

— William Greider

#even #inflation #possibly #protected #value

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims. ↗

— William Greider

#crime #deeds #deregulated #does #finance

The burnt odor in Washington is from the disintegrating authority of the governing classes. ↗

— William Greider

#burnt #classes #disintegrating #governing #odor

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned. ↗

— William Greider

#flop #learned #many #painfully #pensions

Nevertheless, I resist cynicism and continue to believe in the possibilities for genuine democracy. ↗

— William Greider

#continue #cynicism #democracy #genuine #i

I think today that it is essential that the Rwandan tribunal continues to prosecute efficiently. And if the U.N. fails to do that, it is sending entirely the wrong message to people who are in the position to complete these atrocities again. ↗

— Tony Greig

#atrocities #complete #continues #efficiently #entirely