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“Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat.”
― Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
― Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
“I’m fundamentally a hopeful person, because I know that decisions made the world as it is and that better decisions can change it. Nothing about our situation is inevitable or immutable, but you can’t solve a problem with the consciousness that created it.”
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
― The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
“This book argues that the history of federal student loan policies is best understood as a series of messes in which attention became focused on some particular aspect of a larger problem and well-intentioned policies were devised to address each narrowly defined concern.”
― The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem
― The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem
“There is no freedom of religion without a government that is free from religion.”
― The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
― The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
“Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires
Sisyphean patience for its song,
Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
and Art is long.”
― Les Fleurs du Mal
Sisyphean patience for its song,
Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
and Art is long.”
― Les Fleurs du Mal
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