Joe Dawson

“Boy," a friendly voice called out. "Lovely boy.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“The greatest barrier to the emergence and spread of these movements is not the overwhelming power of capital. It is the conviction, held by millions of people, that change is impossible. The moment we let go of our collective belief in the inevitability of the current system is the moment we start to build a new one.”
― Grace Blakeley, Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

“She steals in on little mice feet, but a man hears.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“In much the same way, the rise of the religious right and, with it, culture wars over “family values” and other highly polarizing issues (for example, immigration) have served to insulate American politics from the sharp rise in economic inequality since the late 1970s. Right-wing media outlets and think tanks have spun tales that led voters with stagnating incomes to attribute their hardship to minorities—African Americans, immigrants, women on welfare—that the government has supposedly favored”
― Dani Rodrik, Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy