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Philanthropy means to steal wholesale, and give away retail.

— Paul Lafargue The Religion of Capital (1887)

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

The Right to Be Lazy (1883)

The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.

The Right to Be Lazy (1883)

The blood of three oppressed races runs in my veins.

I am proudest of my Negro extraction.

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