Both the Sicilian mafia and the criminal tongs in China began as movements to defend the oppressed, so perhaps we should not be so painfully surprised that venerable American civil rights organizations have begun to degenerate into extortion rackets.
— Thomas Sowell, Ever Wonder Why? And Other Controversial Essays (2006), p. 450
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