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HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
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poverty
social-class
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George Bernard Shaw |
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This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.
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volition
social-class
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn't pretend that the consensus itself was any of my concern. It was absurd and slightly despicable, in the first decade of Thatcher and Reagan, to hear former and actual radicals intone piously against 'the politics of confrontation.' I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive.
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politics
political-radicalism
social-structure-of-the-uk
united-kingdom
margaret-thatcher
ronald-reagan
oscar-wilde
the-importance-of-being-earnest
social-class
united-states
england
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Christopher Hitchens |
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Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They more or less inherit them. Against this unearned patrimony there have always been speakers and writers who embody Einstein's injunction to 'remember your humanity and forget the rest.' It would be immodest to claim membership in this fraternity/sorority, but I hope not to have done anything to outrage it. Despite the idiotic sneer that such principles are 'fashionable,' it is always the ideas of secularism, libertarianism, internationalism, and solidarity that stand in need of reaffirmation.
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politics
religion
internationalism
libertarianism
social-class
atheism
secularism
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Christopher Hitchens |
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506fef1
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A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.
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social-class
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William Maxwell |
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Do you think me, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless?
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inspirational
social-class
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Charlotte Brontë |
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In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.
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capital-punishment
capital-punishment-in-the-us
social-class
united-states
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Christopher Hitchens |
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e0a18d4
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Francie, huddled with other children of her kind, learned more that first day than she realized. She learned of the class system of a great Democracy.
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education
social-class
school
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Betty Smith |