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New York City is like the bastion of capitalism and patriarchy.

— Elizabeth Yeampierre Interview with Atmos (2021)

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Young people come with hope and with a renewed vision of a future that transforms.

Interview with Atmos (2021)

The conventional, dated, old ways of thinking will not be able to address the challenges of climate change.

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It's really important that the movement be intergenerational.

Interview with Atmos (2021)

AOC embodies the kind of leadership we dream of: brilliant, courageous, and gifted, with a quick mind and an understanding of our history and the political moment from which she emerged. And most importantly to me, she believes in environmental justice.

AOC: The Fearless Rise and Powerful Resonance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez edited by Lynda Lopez (2020)

We won't have power if we don't have intergenerational power. That's not just rhetoric. We can solve problems when we're together.

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I have no doubt that the revolution will triumph. The people of the world will prevail, seize power, seize the means of production, wipe out racism, capitalism.

Huey P. Newton Revolutionary Suicide (1973)

The most obvious negative feature of capitalism is that it can produce private monopolies that restrict output and thereby harm consumers.

Dennis Mueller The Oxford Handbook of Capitalism (2012)

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

Winston Churchill

Capitalism has neither the capacity, nor the moral, nor the ethics, nor the will to solve the problems of poverty.

Fidel Castro

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