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"gonna be honest i must’ve been bored one day on libby because when this book became avalanche i didn’t even recognize the summary and it wasn’t even on my tbr, but here we are! im sure this will get 3 stars." — 11 hours, 5 min ago
"gonna be honest i must’ve been bored one day on libby because when this book became avalanche i didn’t even recognize the summary and it wasn’t even on my tbr, but here we are! im sure this will get 3 stars." — 11 hours, 5 min ago
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"i need to stop choosing books where the main character is just rage baiting you the entire time. also harper sucks!!" — Feb 07, 2026 04:37PM
"i need to stop choosing books where the main character is just rage baiting you the entire time. also harper sucks!!" — Feb 07, 2026 04:37PM
“We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.”
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“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than “politics.” They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”
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“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
“Yes, think about yourself, reflect on your practice, okay. But then you need to test it in the world; you’ve got to be with people. That’s important. And I hate people! So I say that as somebody who actually is really antisocial.”
― We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
― We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
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