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Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, while there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.

Eugene Debs

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Topic

Underdogs Outsiders and outcasts

Author

Eugene Debs

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Federal Court. US v. Eugene V. Debs. RG 21, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Criminal Case Files, 1912–1977, Criminal Case #4057. 9. NYT, 18 Sept. 1918.

To be a Negro is to participate in a culture of poverty and fear that goes far deeper than any law for or against discrimination... After the racist statues are all struck down, after legal equality has been achieved in the schools and in the courts, there remains the profound institutionalized and abiding wrong that white America has worked on the Negro for so long.

Michael Harrington

The Other America

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Topic

Effects of racism Black experience

Author

Michael Harrington

Source

The Other America

Genre

Sociology Political literature

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962, ch. 4.

For the middle class, the police protect property, give directions, and help old ladies. For the urban poor, the police are those who arrest you. In almost any slum there is a vast conspiracy against the forces of law and order.

Michael Harrington

The Other America

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Topic

Police

Author

Michael Harrington

Source

The Other America

Genre

Sociology Political literature

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Citation

Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962, ch. 1.

The urge for destruction is also a creative urge!

Mikhail Bakunin

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Topic

Destructive impulses Creative impulse Creativity

Author

Mikhail Bakunin

Source

Die Reaktionin Deutschland

Language

German

Time

1842 1840s 19th century

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Citation

Bakunin, Michael (published as Jules Elysard). "Die Reaktion in Deutschland." Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft und Kunst. c. 1842.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.

Eugene Victor Debs

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Topic

The vanguard Political progress Progress

Speaker

Eugene Victor Debs

Source

US v. Eugene V. Debs

Medium

Courtroom speech Speech

Language

English

Time

1918 1910s 20th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Federal Court. US v. Eugene V. Debs. RG 21, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Criminal Case Files, 1912–1977, Criminal Case #4057. 9. NYT, 10 Sept. 1918.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are common. But it is to be tolerated as a concession to human frailty, not applauded as desirable in itself.

R.H. Tawney

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Topic

Property rights

Author

R.H. Tawney

Source

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

Genre

Religious literature Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Tawney, Richard Henry. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Tawney, Richard Henry. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Angelico Press, 2021, ch. 1.

To take usury is contrary to Scripture; it is contrary to Aristotle; it is contrary to nature, for it is to live without labour; it is to sell time, which belongs to God, for the advantage of wicked men; it is to rob those who use the money lent, and to whom, since they make it profitable, the profits should belong.

R.H. Tawney

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Topic

Finance

Author

R.H. Tawney

Source

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism

Genre

Religious literature Economic literature

Language

English

Time

1926 1920s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Tawney, Richard Henry. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1926, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Tawney, Richard Henry. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism. Angelico Press, 2021, ch. 1.

The other America, the America of poverty, is hidden today in a way that it never was before. Its millions are socially invisible to the rest of us... The very development of American society is creating a new kind of blindness about poverty. The poor are increasingly slipping out of the very experience and consciousness of the nation.

Michael Harrington

The Other America

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Topic

America Poverty

Author

Michael Harrington

Source

The Other America

Genre

Sociology

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Harrington, Michael. The Other America: Poverty in the United States. Macmillan Publishing Company, 1962, ch. 1.

Politics grease the wheels of business.

R.H. Tawney

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Topic

Political corruption Business Politics

Author

R.H. Tawney

Source

Business and Politics under James 1

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Tawney, R. H. Business and Politics under James I. Cambridge University Press, 1958.

Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.

Peter Kropotkin

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Topic

Man as social animal

Author

Peter Kropotkin

Source

Mutual Aid

Language

English

Time

1902 1900s 20th century

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Citation

Kropotkin, Peter. Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. McClure Phillips & Co./William Heinemann, 1902, ch. 1. Originally published in The Nineteenth Century, c. 1890.