Tess Grover
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“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Children of Dune
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Children of Dune
“White supremacists love what America used to be, even though America used to be--and still is--teeming with millions of struggling White people. White supremacists blame non-White people for the struggles of White people when any objective analysis of their plight primarily implicates the rich White Trumps they support.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
“What’s the problem with being “not racist”? It is a claim that signifies neutrality: “I am not a racist, but neither am I aggressively against racism.” But there is no neutrality in the racism struggle. The opposite of “racist” isn’t “not racist.” It is “antiracist.”
― How to Be an Antiracist
― How to Be an Antiracist
“Formerly man had only a body and a soul. Now he needs a passport as well for without it he will not be treated like a human being.”
― The World of Yesterday
― The World of Yesterday
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