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Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism

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“Inequality may not be fair but is necessary for progress. When resources are distributed to people equally, you establish equality of outcome. If you photograph for a living or build rockets to colonize solar system - equality of outcome will establish the same value for both. It does not reward for resource-intensive and risky operations and discourages the development & progress because it's as valuable as photographing. Any reasonable person will do less complicated things if he is compensated in the same way. BUT, when resources are unequally distributed - it distributes values too. It means it systemically designs 'rich & poor' people. It means if you are poor, then you can become rich. To complete this transformation, you must do something valuable. In this way, minor and huge progress happens. No matter if you are rich or poor - you will need opportunities. It is the way we interact with opportunities constructs inequality.”

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“Kebenaran itu selalu mudah dan sederhana. Dan dalam kesederhanaannya itu terletak kekuasaan yang ganas. Karena, jarang sekali orang dapat mencapai kebenaran primitif dan mengagumkan dari suatu kehidupan setelah bertahun-tahun penuh perjuangan. Karena, memang jarang sekali orang tiba pada kebenaran hidup, yang sederhana, tetapi menakutkan dan penuh kekuatan, setelah hanya beberapa tahun. Dan untuk sampai pada kebenaran berarti bahwa seseorang tidak lagi merasa takut mati. Karena kematian dan kebenaran adalah sama dalam hal bahwa keduanya mensyaratkan keberanian yang besar bila seseorang ingin menghadapi mereka. Dan kebenaran adalah seperti kematian dalam arti membunuh. Ketika saya membunuh, saya lakukan hal itu dengan kebenaran bukan dengan sebilah pisau. Itulah yang menyebabkan mereka takut dan tergesa-gesa untuk melaksanakan hukumannya terhadap saya. Mereka tidak takut kepada pisau saya. Kebenaran saya itulah yang menakutkan mereka. Kebenaran yang menakutkan ini telah memberikan kepada saya kekuatan yang besar. Ia melindungi saya dari rasa takut mati, atau takut kehidupan, rasa lapar, atau ketelanjangan, atau kehancuran. Adalah kebenaran yang menakutkan ini yang mencegah saya merasa takut kepada kekurangajaran penguasa dan para petugas kepolisian.”

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Book:Woman at Point Zero
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“We are indeed a house divided. But the division between race and race, class and class, will not be dissolved by massive infusions of brotherly sentiment. The division is not the result of bad sentiment, and therefore will not be healed by rhetoric. Rather the division and the bad sentiments are both reflections of vast and growing inequalities in our socioeconomic system--inequalities of wealth, of status, of education, of access to political power. Talk of brotherhood and "tolerance" (are we merely to "tolerate" one another?) might once have had a cooling effect, but increasingly it grates on the nerves. It evokes contempt not because the values of brotherhood are wrong--they are more important than ever--but because it just does not correspond to the reality we see around us. And such talk does nothing to eliminate the inequalities that breed resentment and deep discontent.”

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Book:Down the Line: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
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