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“Much of U.S. foreign policy...is an exercise in mass projection, in which a tiny self-interested elite conflates its needs and desires with those of the entire world.”
― Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

“I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“...a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time