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Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays Quotes: In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.
         

In effect, nobody who is not from the losing classes has ever been thrust into a death cell in these United States.


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