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“What drew me to politics was my love of women, the agony I felt in observing the straight-jackets of poverty and repression I saw in my own family. But the deepest political tragedy I have experienced is how with such grace, such blind faith, this commitment to women in the feminist movement grew to be exclusive and reactionary. I call my white sisters on this. I have had enough of this. And I am involved in this book because more than anything else I need to feel enlivened again in a movement that can finally, as my friend Amber Hollibaugh states, "ask the right questions and admit to not having all the answers.”

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“Eventually Mom taught us to excurse ourselves from people who seemed to only care about splitting people in two teams: the 'haves' and the 'have-nots.' We knew something that their money couldn't buy: A wallet didn't mean compassion and a lot of zeroes in your bank account doesn't mean much more than you're getting a free blender from the bank as a thanks. I learned that during the happiest moments of my life when I was a 'have-not.”

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“Over 40% of the global population does not have the luxury to worry about future problems because they are presently struggling to meet their basic everyday needs.”

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Book:Critical Comparison of Low-Carbon Technologies: A practical guide to prioritizing energy technologies for climate change mitigation
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“We have conquered or quelled many diseases that used to kill people in droves: smallpox, measles, polio and the plague. People are taller, and formerly life-threating conditions like appendicitis, dysentery, a broken leg or anemia are easily remedied. To be sure, there is still too much malnutrition and disease in some countries, but these evils are often the result of bad government and social inequality, not a lack of food or medical know how.”

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Book:The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
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