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Let me tell you, never before in the history of this planet has anybody made the progress that African-Americans have made in a 30-year period, in spite of many black folks and white folks lying to one another. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#anybody #before #black #folks #history

My mother was the sweetest lady who ever lived on this planet, but if you tried to tell her that Jesus wasn't a Christian, she would stomp you to death. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#death #ever #her #jesus #lady

Leaks and whispers are a daily routine of news-gathering in Washington. ↗

— William Greider

#leaks #routine #washington #whispers

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

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100. ↗

— William Greider

#chance #children #living #today

Everyone's values are defined by what they will tolerate when it is done to others. ↗

— William Greider

#done #everyone #others #tolerate #values

If you think about it, Washington's overwhelming power in the world is founded on death, the awesome arsenal for killing people. ↗

— William Greider

#arsenal #awesome #death #founded #killing

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

— William Greider

#burnt #classes #disintegrating #governing #odor

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