Thomas Paine's version of "you didn't build that":
"Separate an individual from society,and give him an island or a continent to possess,and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end,in all cases,that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore,of personal property,beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice,of gratitude,and of civilization,a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came"
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Opponents of Indiana Senate Bill 101, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, marched over the weekend in Indianapolis. Photograph: Doug McSchooler/AP LGBT battle far from over as ‘religious freedom’ bills multiply across the US Even as marriage equality emerges a winner in the US, other hard-won LGBT rights are being attacked under the guise of religious […]
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