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According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 95 percent of the world’s calories now come from 30 species.13 Of 30,000 edible plant species, we cultivate about 150.14 And of the more than 30 birds and
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“When states are absent, rights—by any definition—are impossible to sustain. States are not structures to be taken for granted, exploited, or discarded, but are fruits of long and quiet effort.”
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
― Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning
“We need to stop thinking that some Americans are the real Americans, the deserving, the talented, the most patriotic and hardworking, while other can be dismissed as less deserving of the American dream.”
― White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
― White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
“Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”
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“Americans lack any deeper appreciation of class. Beyond white anger and ignorance is a far more complicated history of class identity that dates back to America’s colonial period and British notions of poverty.”
― White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
― White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
“There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]”
― H is for Hawk
― H is for Hawk
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