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“What we learn to call "natural" is actually just the dominant culture's interpretation of history.”

Book:Beyond Beliefs: A Guide to Improving Relationships and Communication for Vegans, Vegetarians, and Meat Eaters

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“The hardest thing of being a man for me is not knowing you have done or said something wrong, but everyday being persecuted for it . A man can never defend himself for any wrong doing, because even the guilty ones claim they are innocent. Yet true innocent ones, always get wrongfully convicted. While guilty ones walk free.”

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Author:De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Marxism is the science of the laws governing the development of nature and society, the science of the revolution of the oppressed and exploited masses, the science of the victory of socialism in all countries, the science of building communist society.”

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Author:Joseph V. Stalin

“but the Mime protested without talking and that were the kind of activists the racist misogynist homophobic xenophobic non-claustrophobic because he worked in a nightclub owner preferred as he agreed everyone had a voice as long as they didn’t speak with it.”

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Book:A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites

Source: A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites

“Either you act or you don't, there's no hoping.”

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Book:Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“Our society is so hell-bent on expansion, power and effiency at all costs that the folks [who question things or suggest the way something's done is not right,] are inconvenient. We slow the world down. We're on the bow of the Titanic, pointing, crying out, "Iceberg! Iceberg!" while everyone else is below deck, yelling back, "We just want to keep dancing!" It is easier to call us broken and dismiss us than to consider that we are responding appropriately to a broken world.”

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Book:Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / Where the Crawdads Sing / Reasons to Stay Alive

Source: Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living / Where the Crawdads Sing / Reasons to Stay Alive

“Data must be used to tell the truth, not to call to action, no matter how noble the intentions.”

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Book:Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

Source: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think

“Maybe it is just easier to focus on life’s trivial missteps when the real challenges feel so insurmountable. But by doing this aren’t we also exhausting ourselves on petty grievances and leaving nothing in the tank for the real issues?”

Activism Outrage Social Action

Author:Ashley Dotty Charles

“Don’t boo, vote - Barack Obama 2016 We intellectualise society’s faults, dissecting them on Facebook pages…… but rarely do we make the necessary strides to affect change in the real world. We boo, but we don’t vote! We need to transfer our resistance from the internet to the real world and reignite purposeful outrage that drove society forward in the offline era.”

Activism Outrage Social Action

Author:Ashley Dotty Charles

“I do not conceptualize our current reality as a gender-war. The fight, it seems to me, is one where ethical people of all genders work together paving a path toward legal and institutional change.... telling our stories started this movement and remains at its core.”

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Book:Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

Source: Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement

“We're currently in the vortex of an extended emergency. Every day feels like waking up from a perfectly boring dream to the realization that you've been sleeping on the cliffs of Mordor. Giving this moment anything less than your all is the equivalent of hitting the snooze button.”

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Author:Lauren DeLuca

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