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The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

by Patrick Radden Keefe

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"Remarkable to see the dangers immigrants put themselves through for hope of a better life in the United States. Fascinating to read the well-oiled system Sister Ping had on organizing the human smuggling into NYC." — Jan 20, 2025 12:03PM

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Isabella’s Quotes

“Where there is power, there is resistance.”
― Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction

tags: activism, leftism, power, resistance

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“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
― Michel Foucault

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“Knowledge is not for knowing: knowledge is for cutting.”
― Michel Foucault, The Foucault Reader

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“People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.”
― Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason

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“Equally important, anyone stupid enough to contemplate invading America would soon reflect on the fact that it contains hundreds of millions of guns, which are available to a population that takes its life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness very seriously.”
― Tim Marshall, Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World

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