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“„Gazeta Wyborcza” sprawdziła, jak wygląda zbieranie podpisów w terenie. Wśród warszawskiej aspirującej klasy średniej za referendum znacznie częściej były kobiety niż mężczyźni, w żyrardowskiej przędzalni natomiast podpisali wszyscy. Powody poparcia dla referendum były ponadklasowe: studentka podpisała, bo „dlaczego banda starych dziadów ma o mnie decydować”; robotnica, bo „ja już mam dzieci, ale co za mnie stary dziad albo pleban będzie decydował”. Komitety Bujaka zebrały w sumie 1 700 000 podpisów za referendum. Sejm je zignorował. Fuszara: – Zostały wyrzucone do kosza. A uzasadnienie było absurdalne: usłyszeliśmy, że nie można takich spraw jak „ochrona życia” rozstrzygać w referendum, przez głosowanie. Przypominam, że ustawy mają to do siebie, że je się uchwala przez głosowanie, tyle że posłów i senatorów. Najlepiej podejście ustawodawców podsumowała posłanka ZChN Halina Nowina-Konopka: „Społeczeństwo składa się z przypadkowych jednostek, dlatego nie można mu ufać”.”

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“New Delhi has historically swung from promising Kashmiris a referendum that allows them to exercise the right to self-determination, to the idea of integrating Kashmir fully into the Indian Union by any means necessary. Today, conditions in the state suggest that any attempt to abrogate Article 370 may actually worsen the conflict in Kashmir and prove counter-productive to any attempt at “full integration”.”

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“No one can rightly claim one hundred percent consistency in everything he does; yet we may assert that inasmuch as man earnestly tries and intends to withdraw his support from the evils of society, he approaches intentional pacifist living. This appears to be possible only in a fair degree of isolation, a fair degree of economic self-sufficiency, a greatly lowered standard of living, and, in consequence, in a simple, rural environment. Pacifist living at this point becomes identical with subsistence living.”

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“The institution of slavery was, for a quarter millennium, the conversion of human beings into currency, into machines who existed solely for the profit of their owners, to be worked as long as the owners desired, who had no rights over their bodies or loved ones, who could be mortgaged, bred, won in a bet, given as wedding presents, bequeathed to heirs, sold away from spouses or children to cover an owner’s debt or to spite a rival or to settle an estate. They were regularly whipped, raped, and branded, subjected to any whim or distemper of the people who owned them. Some were castrated or endured other tortures too grisly for these pages, tortures that the Geneva Conventions would have banned as war crimes had the conventions applied to people of African descent on this soil. Before there was a United States of America, there was enslavement. Theirs was a living death passed down for twelve generations.”

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“Why would White Texans be more obstreperous than other White southerners? It has been suggested that this was because, unlike other Southern states, Texas had not been defeated militarily. They had won the last battle of the Civil War. That the state had been its own Republic, within the living memory of many Texans, also set them apart from the other Confederates. The very thing that has been seen as a source of strength and pride for latter-day Texans, may have fueled a stubbornness that prevented the state from moving ahead at this crucial moment. [p. 131]”

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“All I want to do is reunite my family. Free them from bond-age. But each time I do, another family is left in pieces. But my brothers would've been sold away if I hadn't come. Forever lost like our sisters. But I've never gone on a mission without the good Lord's consent. This is where I'm supposed to be. It hurts, yes, it does, but the Lord has shown me the way. And it led me back here to my brothers.”

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“Nearly every state’s laws governing the enslaved were based, in part, on the Negro Act of 1740, proving that the uniquely American version of human subjugation was never just a thoughtless experiment. It was ingrained in the fabric of the America. It was intentional: a color-coded, never-ending, legally protected, constitutionally enshrined system of human trafficking that extorted labor, intellectual property, and talent in the most brutal way imaginable. It was born out of fear and white supremacy.”

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