“No one thought about what kind of society we were building with such stupid decisions. People who could afford to educate their children in private schools were glad to see the government finally stop wasting their tax money, educating other people’s children. They seemed to think they lived on Mars. They imagined that a country filled with poor, uneducated, unemployable people somehow wouldn’t hurt them!”

— Octavia E. Butler , book Parable of the Talents

Source: Parable of the Talents (1998), Chapter 20 (p. 404)

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