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Thousands are losing their jobs and homes, while corporations are being bailed out with billions of dollars.

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Arundhati Roy
Age: 62
Born: 1961
Born: September 24
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Suzanna Arundhati Roy
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Public support in the U.S. for the war against Iraq was founded on a multitiered edifice of falsehood and deceit, coordinated by the U.S. government and faithfully amplified by the corporate media.
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I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes think that for me that is the real freedom, that I don't want anything. I don't want money or prizes. I want people to know that a war is going to be fought.
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Money need not be our only reward.
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the truth is that it's far easier to make a bomb than to educate four hundred million people.
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I never do anything because I'm a celebrity, as a rule. I do what I do as a citizen.
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To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.
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You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
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The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.
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This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.
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Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces of his. He made her feel as though the world belonged to them- as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined.
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