Thomas Paine's version of "you didn't build that":
"Separate an individual from society,and give him an island or a continent to possess,and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end,in all cases,that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore,of personal property,beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice,of gratitude,and of civilization,a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came"
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The O’Leary: We lost our legitimacy to protest torture by other countries, we are about to lose (if we haven’t already) our legitimacy to protest other police states.
“I don’t know, I honestly don’t know what to say,” he stammered.
“If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more fucking time,” Stewart said. “But I would really settle for less fucking tragedy to be honest with you.”
Stewart was flabbergasted by the fact that the Garner case, unlike the Michael Brown case, had videotaped evidence but still ended with the same result.
“Damn,” Stewart said. “We are definitely not living in a post-racial society. And I can imagine there are lot of people out there wondering how much of a society we’re living in at all.”
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