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All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.
This, only this, the rigid Law pursues.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Poem (1738), “London: A Poem,” ll. 159-160

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All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.
This, only this, the rigid Law pursues.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Poem (1738), “London: A Poem,” ll. 159-160

#quotes #quote #crime #poverty #law #homeless

All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.
This, only this, the rigid Law pursues.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Poem (1738), “London: A Poem,” ll. 159-160

#quotes #quote #crime #poverty #law #homeless

All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.
This, only this, the rigid Law pursues.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Poem (1738), “London: A Poem,” ll. 159-160

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All Crimes are safe, but hated Poverty.
This, only this, the rigid Law pursues.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Poem (1738), “London: A Poem,” ll. 159-160

#quotes #quote #crime #poverty #law #homeless

The true outrage isn’t that there are billionaires who don’t pay federal income taxes but that, in our allegedly “civilized” society, billionaires even exist.
#BILLIONAIRES #WealthDistribution #WeAllInheritTheEarth #SocialContract #FeedNeedNotGreed #wealth #avarice #greed #excess #indigence #poverty #need

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If you’ve inherited or amassed wealth that could sustain hundreds or thousands of lives beyond your own, you unquestionably have something that — in part —belongs to some of your contemporaries.
#wealth #avarice #greed #entitlement #privilege #access #class #indigence #poverty

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