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“Wherever there is a great property, there is great inequality.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“The idea that there is no equality, even when you are dead! Just look at Père-Lachaise! The great, those who are rich, are up above, in the acacia alley, which is paved. They can reach it in a carriage. The little people, the poor, the unhappy,...” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“If you who own the things people must have could understand this, you might preserve yourself. If you could separate causes from results, if you could know that Paine, Marx, Jefferson, Lenin, were results, not causes, you might survive. But that...” John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” George Orwell, Animal Farm
“One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That’s the American ideal. Poor people don’t like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor...” JAY-Z, Decoded
“I am convinced, that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is sufficient while others have not enough.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail

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