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The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

C. L. R. James

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C. L. R. James
Age: 88 †
Born: 1901
Born: January 4
Died: 1989
Died: May 31
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