Sara Salem

“It is a pure tautology to say that crises are provoked by a lack of effective demand or effective consumption. The capitalist system does not recognize any forms of consumer other than those who can pay, if we exclude the consumption of paupers and swindlers. The fact that commodities are unsaleable means no more than that no effective buyers have been found for them, i.e. no consumers (no matter whether the commodities are ultimately sold to meet the needs of productive or individual consumption).”
― Karl Marx, Capital: Critique of Political Economy, Vol 2

“Describing African students sent to London to study in the 1970s, she writes (and Achebe quotes): They work hard for the Doctorates – They work too hard, Giving away Not only themselves, but All of us – The price is high, My brother, Otherwise the story is as old as empires.”
― Laura Chrisman, Postcolonial contraventions: Cultural readings of race, imperialism and transnationalism

“If shackling former prisoners with a lifetime of debt and authorizing discrimination against them in employment, housing, education, and public benefits is not enough to send the message that they are not wanted and not even considered full citizens, then stripping voting rights from those labeled criminals surely gets the point across.”
― Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“Like most people who live on the edge, she spoke with two accents, neither authentic.”
― Madawi Al-Rasheed, A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia