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“We have guided missiles and misguided men.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“It is fascinating to be in a nation that claims to value innovation and yet is so resistant to change.”
― Alicia Garza, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

“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.”
― Alicia Garza, 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.”
― Vincent Bevins, The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World