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"Had this a couple years ago but just got this updated version as Reid added a chapter on Trump and race, with which I apparently must torture myself." — Dec 06, 2016 06:28AM
"Had this a couple years ago but just got this updated version as Reid added a chapter on Trump and race, with which I apparently must torture myself." — Dec 06, 2016 06:28AM
“The murderers are supposed to have been Jewish revisionists, an extreme party that want to be rid of the English and set up a Jewish state. I don't know how long they think the Arabs would suffer a single Jew to exist once the English went."
Jerusalem, Palestine, 7 September 1933”
― The Road to Oxiana
Jerusalem, Palestine, 7 September 1933”
― The Road to Oxiana
“Take childcare for example, an issue that never gets much support beyond lip service in the feminist world, despite it being something that would benefit the majority of women. Once you reach a certain income level, it’s easier and more convenient for you to take care of your own childcare needs than to pay the taxes or contribute to a system that would help all women. If your child is in a failing school, it’s much more convenient to place your child in a private or charter school than to organize ways to improve the situation for the entire community. This also applies to expanding social welfare programs, supporting community clinics, and so on. As a woman’s ability to take care of herself expands thanks to feminist efforts, the feminist goals she’s willing to really fight for, or contribute time and money and effort to, shrink.”
― Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
― Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto
“We just need to feel we know, or we can’t rest. And yet much of life is unknowable and will remain so. Lots”
― Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
― Don't Be a Jerk: And Other Practical Advice from Dogen, Japan's Greatest Zen Master
“He did everything. He studied hard. He went to Harvard. He got married. He had children. He worked. He dreamed big. He pulled his bootstraps all the way up from his humble beginnings to the presidency. He lived the American Dream. And he was called an African Witch Doctor. People asked for his birth certificate. A congressman shouted at him "YOU LIE!" He faced the most recalcitrant Republican Congress ever that was elected by a constituency that wanted to "take the country back."If a black man can be elected as guardian of the American empire, do exactly that, and still not be shielded from racism, what hope is supposed to be left?”
― Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
― Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
“A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.”
― ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
― ZAMANISM Wealth of the People
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