“The demand for group rights will widen in the society, because social life increasingly becomes organized on a group basis.”

—  Daniel Bell, book The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism

Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 5, Unstable America, p. 198

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