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Nobody Suffers The Pain Of Birth Or The Anguish Of Loving A Child In Order For Presidents To Make Wars, For Governments To Feed On The Substance Of Their People, For Insurance Companies To Cheat The Young And Rob The Old.

If We Could Let Go Of Our Faith In Money, Who Knows What We Might Put In Its Place?

To The United States The Third World Often Takes The Form Of A Black Woman Who Has Been Made Pregnant In A Moment Of Passion And Who Shows Up One Day In The Reception Room On The Forty-ninth Floor Threatening To Make A Scene. The Lawyers Pay The Woman Off; Sometimes Uniformed Guards Accompany Her To The Elevators.

Dissent Is What Rescues Democracy From A Quiet Death Behind Closed Doors.

Wars Might Come And Go, But The Seven O'clock News Lives Forever.