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“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.”
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“Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.”
― I Am Not Sidney Poitier
― I Am Not Sidney Poitier
“SOLEMNLY OVER THE FERTILE LAND Solemnly over the fertile land The brief and futile white cloud passes, And for a black instant the fields are touched By a cold breeze. So too in my soul the slow thought soars And darkens my mind, but I, like the field That returns to itself, return to the day, The surface of life. 31 MAY 1927”
― Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems
― Fernando Pessoa & Co.: Selected Poems
“The surest way to keep a problem from being solved is to deny that problem exists. Telling people not to complain is a way of keeping social issues from being addressed. It trivializes the grievances of the vulnerable, making the burdened feel like burdens. Telling people not to complain is an act of power, a way of asserting that one's position is more important than another one's pain. People who say "stop complaining" always have the right to stop listening. But those who complain have often been denied the right to speak.”
― The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
― The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
“Gentrifiers focus on aesthetics, not people. Because people, to them, are aesthetics.”
― The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
― The View From Flyover Country: Essays by Sarah Kendzior
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