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The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor.
"The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor."— Helen Keller
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Meaning of this quote
Keller argues that political institutions favour concentrated wealth over workers. The sentence belongs to her socialist critique of power and economic inequality.
Key takeaway:
Examine whose interests a political arrangement serves.
Origin of the quote
Letter to an English-Woman-Suffragist, published March 3, 1911; collected in Out of the Dark.
Who actually said this?
VerifiedThe collected letter contains the sentence. The post uses American labor in place of labour.
