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If the 99% stopped dividing themselves, they'd be unified against the 1%, and the 1% does not want that.


"Now, what does all of this mean in this great period of history? It means that we've got to stay together. We've got to stay together and maintain unity. You know, whenever Pharaoh wanted to prolong the period of slavery in Egypt, he had a favorite, favorite formula for doing it. What was that? He kept the slaves fighting among themselves. But whenever the slaves get together, something happens in Pharaoh's court, and he cannot hold the slaves in slavery. When the slaves get together, that's the beginning of getting out of slavery. Now let us maintain unity."

-MLK, I've Been To The Mountaintop, last speech given the night before assasination

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemou...




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