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We're all interdependent. Don't think about exploiting and mining other people because we're all interdependent. ...You say that today and people say, "Oh, you're a socialist!"

— David Cay Johnston The Tyrant Next Time (2019)

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We have a president of the United States who is not a loyal citizen.

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There are over 100,000 people in America who's job is to mine the public treasury, or the rules, for their benefit.

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In every place where there is no real tax system, such as Honduras or Afghanistan, there is no widespread wealth.

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To the addicted, money is like cocaine: Too much is never enough.

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As long as there aren't riots in the streets, you can sell your goods in other countries.

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Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

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In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated.

George Orwell

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