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‘Slavery was the root of all struggle. For it was said that factories enslaved the hands of children, and that childbearing enslaved the bodies of women, and that rum enslaved the souls of men… we sought no merely to improve the world, but to remake it.’

Found this a little too relatable :

‘’What he called ‘putting things in order’ consisted of hiding the disorder, pushing dirty clothes behind the cushions or arranging the most disparate objects on the side board. Finally he tired of making the effort, no longer bothered to make his bed, and slept with his dog on the fetid blanket.’ P. 36

‘'That one likes you but she's a fool. It is going to school. She likes you but she wants one who can read books and dresses like the white folks and speaks the language of the whites and wear the little bit of cloth they call a tie. Take her by force or you will be a fool too.'

‘The organisation of sexuality mirrors the organisation of society, so a strike against one becesssirly undermines the other’

For Davis, Marcuse proved ‘it was possible to be an academic and an activist, a scholar and a revolutionary.’

‘The most effective form of warfare against liberation is the implanting of false needs that perpetuate toil, aggressiveness, misery and injustice.’

‘There were other types of bombs… it was as if they exploded upward… they tore through muscles, legs and thighs, they broke bones… nothing left to repair, you had to amputate at the hip.’