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Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.

— George Jackson Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (1994)

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Prestige bars any serious attack on power. Do people attack a thing they consider with awe?

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I'm convinced that it is the psychopathic personality that searches out a uniform. There's little doubt of what's going on in that man's head who will voluntarily don any uniform.

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From its inception, the fascist arrangement has attempted to create the illusion of a mass society in which the traditional capitalist ruling class would continue to play its leading role.

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Top-heavy establishment organizations that exist openly are always a reflection of the men who staff them.

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The prestige of power as the subjective effect of a past deed or reputation, real or fancied, then has a very definite life process.

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