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“War...is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.”

Book:Way of the Cat: Nap, Do Nothing and Stretch Your Way to a Blissful Life

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“To love capitalism is to end up loving racism. To love racism is to end up loving capitalism. The conjoined twins are two sides of the same destructive body. The idea that capitalism is merely free markets, competition, free trade, supplying and demanding, and private ownership of the means of production operating for a profit is as whimsical and ahistorical as the White-supremacist idea that calling something racist is the primary form of racism. Popular definitions of capitalism, like popular racist ideas, do not live in historical or material reality. Capitalism is essentially racist; racism is essentially capitalist. They were birthed together from the same unnatural causes, and they shall one day die together from unnatural causes. Or racial capitalism will live into another epoch of theft and rapacious inequity, especially if activists naïvely fight the conjoined twins independently, as if they are not the same.”

Racism Capitalism Activism White Supremacy Inequity

Book:How to Be an Antiracist

Source: How to Be an Antiracist

“Who said talking isn’t doing something?’ she says. It’s more productive than silence.”

Silence Activism

Book:The Hate U Give

Source: The Hate U Give

“Our democracy is threatened whenever we take it for granted.”

America United States Democracy Activism Usa United States Of America Us

Author:Barack Obama

“Where does that put you?" Montag bit his lip. "I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority.”

Reading Books Empowerment Activism Excitement Drunkenness Exhilaration

Book:Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

“...she was something more- a force, a stable, familiar force like something out of my past which kept me from whirling off into some unknown which I dared not face. It was a most painful position for at the same time Mary reminded me constantly that something was expected of me, some act of leadership, some newsworthy achievement;...”

Revolution Racism Activism Don T Give Up Change The World Speak Out

Book:Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.”

Action Evil Poverty Activism

Book:Walden or, Life in the Woods

Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods

“I can't bring myself to watch yet another video, not because I don't care, but because we're all just a few videos away from becoming completely desensitized. The public execution of Black folks will never be normal.”

Humanity Racism Activism Black Lives Matter Police Brutality Normalcy Hate Crimes

Author:Andrena Sawyer

“Obviously these are some exceptional young people, but what they have in common is that they were ordinary people who cared. They wanted to act, to do something, to make life better for other people—and they have.”

Government Activism Advocacy

Book:Take Back your Government: A Citizen's Guide to Grassroots Change

Source: Take Back your Government: A Citizen's Guide to Grassroots Change

“To acknowledge the existence of the bully and his accompanying risks is not the same as accepting him as a permanent feature of our world. I know that if we accept trauma and fear, it wins. "Bullies don’t just go away. Their legacies don’t just disappear. The bully must be confronted intentionally, his impact named and addressed. Even so, it seems there’s no clear consensus on how to deal with the bully on our blocks. Do we confront him? Match violence with violence? Do we ignore him, or try to kill him with kindness? I don’t think there’s a silver bullet to handling the bully, no one-size-fits-all strategy. But the right strategy has to be rooted in a context bigger than the immediate one, has to be rooted in more than aiming to end the presence of the bully himself. We must focus on the type of world we want to live in and devise a plan for getting there, as opposed to devising a strategy centered on opposition.”

Fear Violence Risk Trauma Activism Resistance Oppression Bullying Solidarity Organizing

Book:On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

Source: On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

“All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of public concern, as issues of justice, as sites of power.”

Politics Justice Activism Oppression

Author:Seyla Benhabib

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