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Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a

Racial injustice, war, urban blight, and environmental rape have a common denominator in our exploitative economic system. – Channing E. Phillips, speech, Washington, D.C., 22 April 1970

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I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn. – Author Unknown

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We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. – Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732

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The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. – Paul A. Samuelson, Newsweek, 12 June 1967

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In its broadest ecological context, economic development is the development of more intensive ways of exploiting the natural environment. – Richard Wilkinson

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