"Individually the poor are not too tempting to……" — Barbara Ehrenreich
"Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene."
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117 Quotes by Barbara Ehrenreich
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