"The goal has been the 'Third Worldization' of the United States:
- an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force;
- a small but growing moneyed class that pays almost no taxes;
- the privatization or elimination of human services;
- the elimination of public education for low-income people;
- the easing of restrictions against child labor;
- the exporting of industries and jobs to low-wage, free-trade countries;
- the breaking of labor unions;
- and the elimination of occupational safety and environmental controls and regulations."
Michael Parenti, Land of Idols, 1993
"You are the very cause of your ignorance, yourselves. You put away the light, yourselves; you first pluck out both your own eyes, yourselves; and after that other men’s too, so that the blind may lead the blind, until you both fall into the pit.”
Thomas More, The Sadness of Christ (Gethsemane), Tower of London, 1535