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In a 2002 speech, Joe Mitty told a gathering of Oxfam charity shop managers that: "I was a sort of Christopher Columbus of the 1940s. I had no idea how to price things and when. But I had two words - rage, and passion. Rage because of the inequality and injustice in the world, and a passion to do something about it."
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