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“just being perceived, all the time being perceived, was itself exhausting.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!

“President Obama says: “Well let’s forget about the crimes that were committed, the invasion of Iraq, let’s just go on.” In others words, let’s continue the same way we’ve been proceeding. That’s the weapon of the powerful.”
― Noam Chomsky, On Palestine

“The racial condition … will never be settled right until a more friendly contact is made among the ministers of both races.”
― Jonathan Eig, King: A Life

“Eight of the ten commandments are about what thou shalt not. But you can live a whole life not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing any good. That’s the whole crisis. The rot at the root of everything. The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not-doing. That belief corrupts everything, has everyone with any power sitting on their hands.”
― Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!