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“In struggle one not only fights against something--injustice, oppression--but one must struggle for something equally real but positive. That's the other part of the equation.”
― Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael
― Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael
“Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.”
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“As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another’s voices, in recognizing one another’s presence.”
― Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
― Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
“The Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek has analyzed this trend with great acuity. As he sees it, mindfulness is “establishing itself as the hegemonic ideology of global capitalism,” by helping people “to fully participate in the capitalist dynamic while retaining the appearance of mental sanity.”
― McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
― McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
“Individual happiness seems hollow unless all human beings are free of oppression, poverty, and violence — as well as free to speak and act in the public sphere. This doesn’t mean we have to be miserable in the meantime. We can’t help each other if we don’t help ourselves. But we have to go further than the smiley face rhetoric of commoditized mindfulness. Dissatisfaction and unhappiness are not impediments to revolution; they are its fuel.”
― McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
― McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality
Jill’s 2025 Year in Books
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382 books
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363 books
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1,466 books
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379 books
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288 books
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570 books
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174 books
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