But the very food we eat, the clothes we wear, the simplest necessities of life with which we provide ourselves, have their roots somewhere, somehow, in exploitation and injustice. It is a cardinal necessity of the social system under which we live that... Youth and Life - Page 303by Randolph Silliman Bourne - 1913 - 362 pagesFull view - About this book
| John A. Thompson - History - 2003 - 320 pages
...Russell of the slums of New York.72 It seemed that their own comfort rested on the sufferings of others. "The very food we eat, the clothes we wear, the simplest...somewhere, somehow, in exploitation and injustice," declared Bourne. "We are all tainted with the original sin; we cannot escape our guilt. And we can... | |
| Bruce Clayton - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 302 pages
...was wonderful advice — no one should live in such a way as to hurt others — but in modern America "the very food we eat, the clothes we wear, the simplest necessities of life . . . have their roots somewhere, somehow, in exploitation and injustice. It is a cardinal necessity... | |
| Barbara Foley - History - 2003 - 336 pages
...explicitly anticapitalist than either Brooks or Mumford, wrote about exploitation in broadly Marxian terms: "[T]he very food we eat, the clothes we wear, the simplest necessities of life . . . have their roots somewhere, somehow, in exploitation and injustice. It is a cardinal necessity... | |
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