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“Now, Social Security through the years, for many many people, has been a terrible investment. It's really a tax, that's all it is. Social Security is a tax.”

People Years Has Beens Social Security Terrible Taxes Investment Social Security Through The Years

Author:Todd Akin

“One of the glaring failures of capitalism is the continuing widespread existence of poverty - often extreme poverty. Even in the advanced economies, many millions of people endure terrible economic and social deprivation, despite the incredible wealth all around them.”

People Social Wealth Existence Poverty Millions Economy Economic Terrible Capitalism Endure Incredibles Extremes Despite Continuing Deprivation Extreme Poverty

Book:Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

Source: Economics for everyone: a short guide to the economics of capitalism

“But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.”

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the heart of wonder. Celebration is social, amenable. Wonder has a chaotic splendor.”

Heart Art Said Sometimes Artist Social Wonder Terrible Celebrate Working It Celebration Chaotic Splendor Amenable

Book:Spillville: A Collaboration

Source: Spillville: A Collaboration

“If you take racism away from certain people - I mean, vitriolic racism as well as the sort of social racist - if you take that away, they may have to face something really terrible, misery, self-misery, and deep pain about who they are.”

People Ifs Wells May Mean Self Pain Faces Certain Social Terrible Racism Misery Racist Deep Pain

Author:Toni Morrison

“The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical restrictions, has resulted not only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power.”

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Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture

Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture