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“I have read or been told that in a book of etiquette of the seventeenth century the very first rule forbids you to tell your dreams to other people, since they cannot possibly be of interest to them.”
― Out of Africa: and Shadows on the Grass
― Out of Africa: and Shadows on the Grass
“Fascist politics can dehumanize minority groups even when an explicitly fascist state does not arise.”
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
“Create a story of which you will be proud.”
― The Lost Girls of Paris
― The Lost Girls of Paris
“The dangers of fascist politics come from the particular way in which it dehumanizes segments of the population. By excluding these groups, it limits the capacity for empathy among other citizens, leading to the justification of inhumane treatment, from repression of freedom, mass imprisonment, and expulsion to, in extreme cases, mass extermination.”
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
― How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
“The tight place, the dark pit in which I am now lying, of what bird is it the talon? When the design of my life is completed, shall I, shall other people see a stork?”
― Out of Africa
― Out of Africa
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Meets at Buffalo Street Books the second Thursday of the month from 6-7:15pm.
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