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Random quote of the day:

“It’s a stirring fact that our slave ancestors left behind not documents of property but an incredible amount of cultural wealth. It is a tragedy that we are only able to imagine their individual contributions to that collective wealth—and the worlds they might have made had they been free.

―Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Faces of America: How 12 Extraordinary People Discovered Their Pasts

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Random quote of the day:

“Patience and latitude and even humility are paradoxically the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.”

—James Lee Burke, Wayfaring Stranger

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“This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk—really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.”

—Danny Glover, Democracy Now! August 28, 2008

Random quote of the day:

“If you have much, give your wealth; if you have little, give your heart.”

—Moroccan proverb

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“It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.”

—Mark Twain, Eve’s Diary

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Random quote of the day:

“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.”

—Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

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