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If you don't mind, I'd like to start today with a dramatic reading.

But first, let me set the scene.

The lights come up and the stage is dressed as a dark cave.

A young woman lies sleeping on a rocky ledge.

Downstage, a mustachioed and goateed man paces back and forth.

He looks at the exhausted woman and can't help but muse out loud about the societal injustice that brought them to this sorry point.

His soliloquy begins, quote,

Poor sufferer, your couch is less rugged than the hearts of persecutors.

It is thus they would bruise and trample upon all who have the sin of poverty upon their souls.

But I shall yet live to set my foot on their many proud necks.

The day will come, haughty masters, deceive not yourselves.

Ye look upon the poor as slaves and set up rulers over them. Any law you make is but to keep them more in subjection. They are ground down to better their morals. Their harmless sports are cut,

lest they should become vicious. Their hours of relaxation limited, for fear they might grow idle.

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