Danielle Swain

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Noam Chomsky
“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
Noam Chomsky

Chinua Achebe
“Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!”
Chinua Achebe, Anthills of the Savannah

James Baldwin
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin

Noam Chomsky
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....”
Noam Chomsky, The Common Good

Noam Chomsky
“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
Noam Chomsky

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Nikita
1,355 books | 47 friends

Subraj
399 books | 149 friends

Deon Sam
2 books | 1 friend

Dwayne ...
0 books | 1 friend

Faz Chin
7 books | 4 friends

Nathan ...
3 books | 168 friends

Shad Baksh
2 books | 151 friends

Hamza Vécu
1 book | 1 friend

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