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"Really, really interesting
Lots of journal entries from Goebbels.
It's notable when this book was published and the US political landscape at the time..." — Mar 30, 2023 10:14AM
"Really, really interesting
Lots of journal entries from Goebbels.
It's notable when this book was published and the US political landscape at the time..." — Mar 30, 2023 10:14AM
“Faith can easily make one fanatical. That’s why all religions have cost so much blood.” He grinned. “Tolerance is the daughter of doubt, Eugénie. That explains why you, with all your faith, are so much more aggressive toward me than I,
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“Managing inequality almost never includes higher standards of care for those whose agency has been constrained, whether by poverty or by prison bars.”
― Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
― Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
“The first illegal immigrants to be hunted down in Desolation by the earliest form of the Border Patrol were Chinese. In the 1800s, American railroad barons needed cheap skilled labor to help "tame our continent." Mexico's Chinese hordes could be hired for cheap, even at cut rates. Job opened, word went out, the illegals came north.
Sound familiar?
Americans panicked at the "yellowing" of America. A force known as the Mounted Chinese Exclusionary Police took to the dusty wasteland. They chased the "coolies" And deported them.”
― The Devil's Highway: A True Story
Sound familiar?
Americans panicked at the "yellowing" of America. A force known as the Mounted Chinese Exclusionary Police took to the dusty wasteland. They chased the "coolies" And deported them.”
― The Devil's Highway: A True Story
“But the worst of the expense lies with the medications, and there is no reason for their high and fluctuating prices: the drugs have been off patent for decades, and we know that the same companies sell the same drugs at wildly different prices in different countries. Drug prices should not constitute the chief barrier to effective therapy for all patients... With less complaining, and more coordination, international public health authorities could have brought these prices down rapidly, as we have learned by our efforts to do so.”
― Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
― Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
“The person had to fall. Because if he didn't fall that meant the demon was powerful and the pastor needed to come at him even harder. You could be a linebacker in the NFL. Didn't matter. That pastor was taking you down. Good Lord, that was fun.”
― Born A Crime Stories from a South African Childhood / Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race / Natives Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
― Born A Crime Stories from a South African Childhood / Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race / Natives Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
“In this increasingly interconnected world, we must understand that what happens to poor people is never divorced from the actions of the powerful. Certainly, people who define themselves as poor may control their own destinies to some extent. But control of lives is related to control of land, systems of production, and the formal political and legal structures in which lives are enmeshed. With time, both wealth and control have become increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few. The opposite trend is desired by those working for social justice.”
― Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
― Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
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