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“It’s no coincidence that the scientific revolution in Britain coincided with the rise of British participation in the Atlantic slave trade and the growing wealth being extracted from colonies and enslaved labor.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“In short, teaching writing is not only inseparable from teaching content, it can also be tantamount to teaching students how to think critically.”
― Natalie Wexler, The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America's Broken Education System--and How to Fix it

“psychological, and moral implications it has had both for its contractors and its victims. By treating the present as a somehow neutral baseline, with its given configuration of wealth, property, social standing, and psychological willingness to sacrifice, the idealized social contract renders permanent the legacy of the Racial Contract.”
― Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract

“For those who remain devout, God endowed man with what, by any standard, must be considered a universally bad disposition, fortunately put to good use in subduing women.”
― Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women