Alice Diorio
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“I'm sick of this society. "Earn a living" as if I'm not yet living; lobotomized and robotized from birth, they tell me I can't do anything I want to do in the subtlest and sneakiest ways possible. They want to erase all possible hints that I've been born. I have two centers: love and my desire to sleep.”
― Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels
― Portrait of an Eye: Three Novels
“I came here to tell the truth - and if the truth condemns America, then she stands condemned!”
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
― The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.”
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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.”
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“Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.”
― Anarchism and Other Essays
― Anarchism and Other Essays
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