"Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the..." - Quote by Ralph Nader
Ninety-seven percent of the CEOs of the Fortune 500 are white men, and what they do radiates all the way down into poor areas and cities around our country. Like predatory lending and misallocation of municipal services. These guys get municipal service, poor areas don't. So they run the economy into the ground, and who suffers the most? The poor pay more and they die earlier.
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“The clinical definition of "fascism" is when private concentrated economic power takes government away from the people, turns government into a guarantor, a subsidizer, a covering of corporate power.”
“The concept of individual with a conscience is one whose highest allegiance is to his fellow man.”
“When strangers start acting like neighbors... communities are reinvigorated.”
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“Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.”
“The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.”
“I have no interest in celebrities. If all the superrich disappeared, the world economy would not even notice. The superrich are irrelevant to the economy.”
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“Washington DC is corporate-occupied territory.”
“We have two parties who are basically hijacking our country for their corporate paymasters. And if we focus on 535 members of Congress, that's not all that many, we're going to see a fast turnaround. So focus all your concerns, all the information, the kind of agenda the Green Party has. Turn it right on your Senators and Representatives.”
“General Motors could buy Delaware if DuPont were willing to sell it.”