"Poor people, especially those of color, are worth……" — Chris Hedges
"Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year."
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66 Quotes by Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges has 66 quotes on this site.
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Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
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War in the end is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of soldiers by politicians, and…
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In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.
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The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
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We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically…
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No real journalist makes $5 million a year... Those in power fear and dislike real journalists.
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The notion that the press was used in the [first Iraq] war is incorrect. The press wanted to be used.…
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The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that…
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War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a…
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The arts often realize human truths well before other branches of human endeavor.
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There are always people willing to commit unspeakable human atrocity in exchange for a little power and privilege.
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We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They…
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More Color Quotes
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
— Chinua Achebe
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you…
— Richard Bach
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
— Dave Barry
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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
— Lynda Barry
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It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
— Lance Bass
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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I like bold colors but usually wear black.
— Mayim Bialik
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