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“Racism is a kind of "extended" tribalism based on blood ties, it has nothing to do with merit. -To Be Tried As A Jew-”

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“His eyes narrow on the blood, and he points the wooden stick at me. 'You seem to have cut yourself.' I wonder if he's surprised that I'm alive. I wonder if he watched the tower the whole time during his luncheon, waiting for the amusing spectacle of me jumping to my death. I take the knife out from under my tunic and show it to him, stained a flinty red. I smile. 'I could cut you, too.”

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“Tanah ini adalah darah dan napas kita. Tanah ini ialah mata pencarian kita. Selama ini dia menghidupi kita yang miskin dan menyumpal perut kita dengan tanaman yang ia tumbuhkan di atasnya. Bukan mereka. Siapa mereka itu? Siapa kita ini? Apakah kita dianggap dan diperhitungkan di negeri ini? Kita tak lebih dari sampah yang diinjak-injak dan disingkirkan.”

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“There is a magic that beats in our blood, the same magic that flooded Eve's veins when she bit into the apple. It is the magic that pounded in Guinevere's heart when she kissed Lancelot in the rain, and it is the magic that brings us back to the living after we have battle to bring a child's soul across the Valley of Death.”

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Book:Queen of December: Verses of Wings and Witches
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“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things..”

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Book:Civil Disobedience and Other Essays
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