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“Solidarity can never be expressed by hearing someone's pain and then turning the conversation back to yourself.”
― The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
― The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
“As study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.”
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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
“I fear that the truth of what happened contradicts so forcefully our idea of what the Cold War was, of what it means to be an American, or how globalization has taken place, that it has simply been easier to ignore it.”
― 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
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