“Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessor.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“Opulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessor.”
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Jerome
The Cry for Justice (1915), p. 397
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