One New Year’s Eve, a sailor saw her being served in a bar and asked: “When did you start serving nigger bitches?” She stabbed a bottle into his face.140 Another time in another bar,141 a group of soldiers and sailors started stubbing out
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“In my prison cell i sit
With my britches full of $hit
and my balls are bouncing gently on the floor
and i see the bloody snag
when she bit me in the bag
oh, i'll never f--- a polack any more”
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With my britches full of $hit
and my balls are bouncing gently on the floor
and i see the bloody snag
when she bit me in the bag
oh, i'll never f--- a polack any more”
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“Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual form of expression is dead dogma, its physical form brute force.”
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“At its heart, youth violence is a public health issue. We’ll tackle it by replicating the Glasgow approach;2 police, educators, healthcare professionals, charities, community leads, youth workers, local authorities working together systemically to change behaviour and culture.”
― Curing Violence: How we can become a less violent society
― Curing Violence: How we can become a less violent society

“Social-Democracy leads the struggle of the working class not only for better terms for the sale of labour power, but also for the abolition of the social system which compels the propertyless to sell themselves to the rich”
― What Is to Be Done? Full and Fine 1902 English Edition
― What Is to Be Done? Full and Fine 1902 English Edition
“Becoming trauma-informed means learning about ACEs and their devastating impact on human lives. It means instead of asking a distressed child or adult “what’s wrong with you?” we instead dare to ask “what happened to you?”
― Curing Violence: How we can become a less violent society
― Curing Violence: How we can become a less violent society

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