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Michael G. Kramer
“Oskar Scultetus said, “Two of my men have been ordered to cut two of the guy wires holding the transmission tower in place, and they are already doing so  using  oxy-acetylene torches. When they have done it, the tower will fall!”
Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

Primo Levi
“En esta clave adquieren sentido muchos detalles, desconcertante en caso contrario, de la técnica empleada en los campos. Humillar, degradar, rebajar al hombre al nivel de sus vísceras. De ahí los viajes en vagones sellados, expresamente promiscuos, expresamente carentes de agua (no se trataba en este caso de razones económicas). De ahí la estrella amarilla en el pecho, la rapadura del pelo, incluso a las mujeres. De ahí el tatuaje, la ropa desmoñada, los zapatos que obligan a cojear. De ahí, y no resulta comprensible de otra manera, la típica ceremonia, la predilecta, cotidiana, de las marchas a paso militar de los hombres de trapo delante de la orquesta, un visión grotesca más que trágica. A ellas asistían, ademas de los amos, unidades de las Juventudes Hitlerianas, chicos de 14 a 18 años, y es evidente cual había de ser su impresión. ¿Son estos, pues, los judios de los que tanto nos han hablado, los comunistas, los enemigos de nuestro país? Pero si estos no son hombres, son marionetas, son animales: van sucios, harapientos, no se lavan, cuando se les golpea no se defienden, no se rebela; no piensan mas que en llenarse la barriga. Es justo hacer que trabajen hasta reventar, es justo matarlos. Es ridículo compararlos con nosotros, aplicarles nuestras leyes.”
Primo Levi, Assim Foi Auschwitz

Kate Chopin
“The tears came so fast to Mrs. Pontellier’s eyes that the damp sleeve of her peignoir no longer served to dry them. She was holding the back of her chair with one hand; her loose sleeve had slipped almost to the shoulder of her uplifted arm. Turning, she thrust her face, steaming and wet, into the bend of her arm, and she went on crying there, not caring any longer to dry her face, her eyes, her arms. She could not have told why she was crying.”
Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“The night was when all the failures were remembered longer.”
Sergio Cobo, A Story of Yesterday

Naomi Klein
“Like the fascist/New Age alliance, all of this is playing out on a kind of historical loop. Whenever one group has chosen to allow terrible violence to be inflicted on another group, there have been stories and logics that provided the permission for the beneficiaries of the violence either to actively (even gleefully) participate or to actively look away. Stories that said things like this: The people being sacrificed/enslaved/imprisoned/colonized/left to die so that others can live comfortably are not the same level of human. They are other/substandard/lesser/darker/more animal/diseased/criminal/lazy/uncivilized. These logics have been resurgent on the right for years now, evident in the presence of protofascist and authoritarian leaders in Brazil, India, Hungary, the Philippines, Russia, and Turkey, among others.”
Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: a Trip into the Mirror World

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