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** [[Quran]], Surah Al-Ma'idah, 5:38-39
* What has to be [[explained]] is not the fact that the man who is [[hungry]] steals or the fact that the man who is [[exploited]] [[strikes]], but why the majority of those who are hungry ''don’t'' steal and why the majority of those who are exploited ''don’t'' strike.
** [[Wilhelm Reich]], ''The Mass Psychology of Fascism'' (1933), p. 19
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* A thief is a [[lion]], but after he has been caught, he will be a [[slave]].
** Šuruppak, ''[[Instructions of Shuruppak]]'' (3rd millennium BCE). [http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section5/tr561.htm]
* [[Mother Teresa|You]] urge [[wikipedia:Lance Ito|Judge Ito]] to look into his heart — as he sentences [[wikipedia:Charles Keating|Charles Keating]] — and do what [[Jesus]] would do. I submit the same [[challenge]] to you. Ask yourself what Jesus would do if he were given the fruits of a [[crime]]; what Jesus would do if he were in possession of [[money]] that had been stolen; what Jesus would do if he were being exploited by a thief to ease his [[conscience]]? I submit that Jesus would probably and unhesitatingly return the stolen property to its rightful owners. You should do the same. You have been given money by Mr. Keating that he has been convicted of stealing by [[fraud]]. Do not permit him the 'indulgence' he desires. Do not keep the money. Return it to those who worked for it and earned it!
** Paul W. Turley, in response to [[Mother Teresa]]'s request for clemency for [[wikipedia:Charles Keating|Charles Keating]], as quoted by [[Christopher Hitchens]] in [http://books.google.com/books?id=PTgJIjK67rEC&pg=PA11&dq=%22I+think+it+is+very+beautiful+for+the+poor+to+accept+their+lot%22 ''The Missionary Position''], (Verso, 1995), pp. 70
* Suppose to-day Negroes do steal; who was it that for centuries made stealing a virtue by stealing their labor?
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