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what ails philanthropy at its core is colonialism. Almost without exception, funders reinforce the colonial division of Us vs. Them, Haves vs. Have Nots, and mostly white saviors and white experts vs. poor, needy, urban, disadvantaged,
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“Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos;”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“That day being Christmas Day, Ned Land seemed to regret sorely the non-celebration of "Christmas," the family fete of which Protestants are so fond.”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
“suddenly I was refreshed by a current of pure air, and perfumed with saline emanations. It was an invigorating sea breeze, charged with iodine. I opened my mouth wide, and my lungs saturated themselves with fresh particles.”
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
― Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
“I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind, and endowed with the will and power to effect purposes of horror, such as the deed which he had now done, nearly in the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“settlers cannot be considered immigrants because immigrants are expected to obey the laws of the land when they arrive, while settlers make their own new laws of the land.”
― Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
― Decolonizing Wealth: Indigenous Wisdom to Heal Divides and Restore Balance
NVCF Book Club
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— last activity Jan 16, 2021 06:55PM
Employees and friends of North Valley Community Foundation who like to read books
Chris’s 2025 Year in Books
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