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The wealthy have never liked to pay for the labor that enriches them. Ever since slavery was eliminated, they have been trying to keep it as close to slavery as they can without violating the slave laws. (Michael Moore)
Nobody was talking about healthcare until 'Sicko' came out. View quote
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I'm a highly flawed individual, as we all are, and because I was raised by Jesuits, I'm constantly, 'What is it about me and what I can do to be better?' View quote
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If you're white, and you really want to help change things, why not start with yourself? View quote
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When you come from the working class and you do well enough whereby you can provide a little bit better for your family, get a decent roof over their head and send them to a good school, that's considered a good thing. View quote
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The American media wants to pump you full of fear. View quote
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Every night I watch the nightly news. It's funded by the pharmaceutical companies. Virtually every ad is a drug ad. They get their say every night on the nightly news through advertising. View quote
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We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things. View quote
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I assume everything I'm saying in an email or saying on the telephone is being looked at. View quote
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We all need to be huge supporters of the theatrical documentary. View quote
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My films don't have instant impact because they're dense with ideas that people have not thought about. It takes a while for the American public to wrap its head around some of the things I'm saying. (Michael Moore)
There should be no private health insurance companies operating for profit. View quote
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What I'm asking for is a new economic order. I don't know how to construct that; I'm not an economist. View quote
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People like me who grew up in a working-class town, who don't have a college education, you don't usually hear from us. View quote
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I have never owned a share of stock in my life, and the only time I've double dipped into anything is at the snack tray. View quote
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The products built in the factories of G.M., Ford and Chrysler are some of the greatest weapons of mass destruction responsible for global warming and the melting of our polar icecaps. View quote
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Occupy has to continue as a bold, in-your-face movement - occupying banks, corporate headquarters, board meetings, campuses and Wall Street itself. We need weekly - if not daily - nonviolent assaults right on Wall Street. View quote
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Somehow, I don't think Jesus came to Earth to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. View quote
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I've always felt so grateful that I dropped out of school, that I never had to do a thesis. I wouldn't know how to organise and structure myself to film so that B follows A and C follows B. View quote
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People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education. View quote
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Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way. (Michael Moore)
I'm the kind of person that believes there's a part of your voting that has to be purely on principle, and there's a part that has to be on strategy. View quote
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There's nothing pure about capitalism. View quote
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I'm very blessed and fortunate that people want to go see my movies. View quote
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How do you deliver democracy to a country? You don't do it down the barrel of a gun. That's not how you deliver it. View quote
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