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Quote by Jesse Jackson

“The relationship between the prophet and the President, the priest and the President, is a sacred one.”

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Jesse Jackson is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician, born on October 8, 1941. He is renowned for his pivotal role in the civil rights movement and his relentless pursuit of economic and social justice. more

“Higher education isn't just a personal investment. It's a public good that pays off in a more competitive workforce and better-informed and engaged citizens. Every year, we spend nearly $100 billion on corporate welfare, and more than $500 billion on defense spending. Surely ensuring the next generation can compete in the global economy is at least as important as subsidies for big business and military adventures around the globe. In fact, I think we can and must go further - not just making public higher education tuition-free, but reinventing education in America as we know it.”

“When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need.”

Needs Mean Government School Pay Break Special Cost Taxes Defense Corporations Expenses Medicare Subsidies National Defense Tax Breaks Handouts Good School

Author:Robert Reich

“Corporations are not people, despite what the Supreme Court says, and they don't need or deserve handouts.”

People Needs Deserve Court Supreme Despite Corporations Supreme Court Handouts

Author:Robert Reich

“Anyone believing the TPP is good for Americans take note: The foreign subsidiaries of U.S.-based corporations could just as easily challenge any U.S. government regulation they claim unfairly diminishes their profits - say, a regulation protecting American consumers from unsafe products or unhealthy foods, investors from fraudulent securities or predatory lending, workers from unsafe working conditions, taxpayers from another bailout of Wall Street, or the environment from toxic emissions.”

“However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.”

May Lying Materials Photograph Raw Materials

Author:Wright Morris

“I prefer a taken to a made photograph.”

Made Taken Photograph

Author:Wright Morris

“In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.”

Photograph Track Blur Snail

Book:Time pieces: photographs, writing, and memory

Source: Time pieces: photographs, writing, and memory

“The vast number of photographers, feeding on anything visible, overgraze the landscape the way cattle overgraze their pasture.”

Way Numbers Photographer Landscape Visible Feeding Cattle Pastures

Book:Time pieces: photographs, writing, and memory

Source: Time pieces: photographs, writing, and memory

“Images proliferate. Am I wrong in being reminded of printing money in a period of wild inflation? Do we know what we are doing? Are we able to evaluate what we have done?”

Knows Done Able Periods Inflation Evaluate Printing Printing Money

Book:Time pieces: photographs, writing, and memory

Source: Time pieces: photographs, writing, and memory

“[We] make images to see clearly: then we see clearly what we have made.”

Made

Author:Wright Morris

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