Carolina QuotesWe outnumber the rich and always will. This is still a democracy, more or less, and we have the ability to vote with our brains and not some kind of mixed up idealism that makes us go against our own interest. And we can organize, so that when the rich and privileged don’t keep their promises, we have a way to make them listen.
Lewis Shiner Carolinian
Source
pp. 105–6
- work
- Black & White (2008)
- year
- 2008
- locator
- pp. 105–6
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“We outnumber the rich and always will. This is still a democ…” Lewis Shiner. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-56D1E57912. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/56d1e57912
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