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If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.

— George Monbiot

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Bail out the people, not the corporations. Bail out the living world, not its destroyers. Let’s not waste our second chance.

Corporations’ freedom detracts from our freedom, and it’s a zero-sum game.

No political challenge can be met by shopping.

Capitalism collapses without growth, yet perpetual growth on a finite planet leads inexorably to environmental calamity.

Of all the varieties of media bias, the deepest is the bias against relevance. The more important the issue, the less it is discussed.

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There is a Lady sweet and kind,
Was never face so pleased my mind;
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And yet I love her till I die.

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To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.

Mahatma Gandhi

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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