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The scales have fallen from my eyes. So many things we are indoctrinated with in our schools that were simply lies and propaganda to make our 'history' more palatable. I had read "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" many many years ago and that was so imp
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“I learned that racism, like most systems of oppression, isn't about bad people doing terrible things to people who are different from them but instead is a way of maintaining power for certain groups at the expense of others.”
― The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
― The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
“Looking at it this way, the major losers of the twentieth century were those who believed too sincerely in the existence of a liberal international order, those who trusted too much in democracy, or too much in what the United States said it supported, rather than what it really supported—what the rich countries said, rather than what they did. That group was annihilated.”
― The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
― The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World
“Our scientific power has outmatched our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguide men.”
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