Moissaye J. Olgin: As to bankers and brokers, real estate operators and promoters — they do not produce anything essential to human life although they have the lion’s share of control over production. As a matter of fact, they produce nothing. They transfer “paper” from hand to hand. That paper — call it checks or deeds or drafts or shares — is a claim to the fruits of somebody else’s labor. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2968
Che Guevara: The government of the United States represents, as its army also does, the finances of the United States. But these finances do not represent the North American people; they represent a small group of financiers, the owners of all the big enterprises... who also exploit the North American people. Clearly they do not exploit them in the same manner that they exploit us, the human beings of inferior races... for we have not had the good fortune of being born from blond, Anglo-Saxon parents. But they do exploit and divide them, they too are divided into blacks and whites, and they too are divided into men and women, union and non-union, employed and unemployed. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2969
Saramago: It seems indecent to talk about (democracy) in the abstract, without the stimulus given by the presence, the participation and the involvement of citizens in community life. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote2970
