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The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.

— Susette La Flesche

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A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned.

The people who were once owners of this soil ask you for their liberty, and law is liberty.

The Plight of the Ponca Indians (1879)

The tribe has been robbed of thousands of dollars' worth of property, and the government shows no disposition to return what belongs to them.

The Plight of the Ponca Indians (1879)

So many seem to think that Indians fight because they delight in being savage and are bloodthirsty.

The Plight of the Ponca Indians (1879)

It seems to us sometimes that the government treats us with less consideration than it does even the dogs.

The Plight of the Ponca Indians (1879)

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Men accept servility in order to acquire wealth; as if they could acquire anything of their own when they cannot even assert that they belong to themselves.

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Health is the greatest gift, contentment is the greatest wealth, a trusted friend is the best relative, Nibbana is the greatest bliss.

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Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.

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Bourgeois society is ruled by equivalence. It makes the dissimilar comparable by reducing it to abstract quantities. To the Enlightenment, that which does not reduce to numbers, and ultimately to the one, becomes illusion.

Max Horkheimer Dialektik der Aufklärung [Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944)

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