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― Legendborn
― Legendborn
“Sometimes, the word “stateless” is carelessly or even abusively used; but it does describe those peoples who had no machinery of government coercion and no concept of a political unit wider than the family or the village. After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument to be used by a particular class to control the rest of society in its own interests.”
― How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
― How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
“It's not about the teller," I said. "But the fortune. Good or ill, true or false, it haunts the listener.”
― Court of Lions
― Court of Lions
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― Legendborn
― Legendborn
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