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Our history shows that the death penalty has been unjustly imposed, innocents have been killed by the state, effective rehabilitation has been impaired, judicial administration… — Ramsey Clark
The death penalty is no more effective a deterrent than life imprisonment... It is also evident that the burden of capital punishment falls upon the… — Thurgood Marshall
The poor long for riches, the rich long for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquility. — Rama Swami
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. — Mother Teresa
One function of the librarian, as he saw it, was to blunt the edge of these differences and to provide a means whereby the rich… — Lewis Henry Steiner
No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race- small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing.… — Sitting Bull
Now it is worth noticing two things about the private substitutes that I have described. The first is that in the aggregate they are probably… — Brian Barry
The liberals who demanded equality of taxation on behalf of the poor, for instance, did not imagine that they would obtain progressive taxation to the… — Vilfredo Pareto
The rich buy assets. The poor only have expenses. The middle class buys liabilities they think are assets. The poor and the middle class work… — Robert Kiyosaki
Funding from rich countries to help the poor and vulnerable adapt to climate change is not even one percent of what is needed. This glaring… — Barbara Stocking
Poor leaders push us towards the goal. Great leaders guide us through the journey. — Simon Sinek
It's amazing how people can get so excited about a rocket to the moon and not give a damn about smog, oil leaks, the devastation… — Cesar Chavez
The same individuals who are doing primary research in the role of humans on the climate system are then permitted to lead the [IPCC] assessment!… — Roger A. Pielke
The impact of climate change will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries. It will therefore exacerbate inequalities in health… — Rajendra K. Pachauri
The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our population… — David Attenborough
We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children who are advantaged aren't getting more… — Barack Obama
The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason… — John Stuart Mill
We are developing in the United States a huge underclass of unwanted people, many of them the descendants of the exploitation of the South American… — Benedict Groeschel
No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services,… — John Kenneth Galbraith

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