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“The society of Christendom and especially of Western Christendom up to the explosion, which we call the Reformation, had been a society of owners: a Proprietarial Society. It was one in which there remained strong bonds between one class and another, and in which there was a hierarchy of superior and inferior, but not, in the main, a distinction between a restricted body of possessors and a main body of destitute at the mercy of the possessors, such as our society has become.”

Source: The Crisis Of Civilization

“The one important distinction between the two factors of production is that in a free society, ownership of the human factor, labor, cannot be concentrated while ownership of the non-human factor, capital, can be.”

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Author:Louis O. Kelso

“Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor work and capital work suggests the lines along which we could develop economic institutions capable of dealing with increasingly capital-intensive production, as our present institutions cannot.”

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Book:Democracy and Economic Power: Extending the ESOP Revolution through Binary Economics

Source: Democracy and Economic Power: Extending the ESOP Revolution through Binary Economics

“Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own. This is one of the chief points of distinction between man and the animal creation.”

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Book:A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII

Source: A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII

“It's long been common practice among many to draw a distinction between "human rights" and "property rights," suggesting that the two are separate and unequal - with "property rights" second to "human rights."”

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Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Classifications and distinctions based on race or color have no moral or legal validity in our society. They are contrary to our constitution and laws.”

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Author:Thurgood Marshall

“Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.”

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Book:Steal this Urine Test: Fighting Drug Hysteria in America

Source: Steal this Urine Test: Fighting Drug Hysteria in America