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“I believe that whether we live in America or in any part of the world, we need to stand against turning ourselves into customers. We are first and foremost humans and citizens, and those attributes allow us to have a dialogue with each other, to fight injustice and violence together, to hold those in power accountable together, to protect the vulnerable and the disempowered members in our society together, and to help each other in times of need collectively. As customers, we are just lonely and isolated individuals measured by our paychecks, the expiration dates on our corporate cards, and the ability to afford or not afford this or that corporate service. It weakens our collective power. Being a customer or a consumer turns everything human, beautiful, and enjoyable into an unpleasant job responsibility. It robs us the pleasure of living.”

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Author:Louis Yako
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“I gave my youth to humanity, the most precious gift anybody could offer - but I am not asking you to do the same - all I am asking is step up wherever you see injustice - step up wherever you see bigotry - step up wherever you see savagery.”

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Book:Hurricane Humans: Give me accountability, I'll give you peace
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“I think of the hundreds upon hundreds of pictures and videos of the mutilated, the starved, the dismembered, and I am reminded that all of this is functionally invisible to so many in the part of the world where I now live. That if it were presented to them, some would undoubtedly respond the way Barbara Bush once did when asked about the Iraqi dead: “Why should we hear about body bags and deaths? It’s not relevant. So why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like that?” But others, I think, would recoil in a different way. Stubborn as anything, I hang on to the hope that, presented with proof of injustice, the majority human reflex is to act against it.”

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Book:One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
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“When a beast invades your house and starts abusing your loved ones, would you sit back waiting for the authorities to intervene - you may, but I can't - I won't - for me family and society are one, and when wild animals run rampant abusing that family of mine, I would die defending my family, not sit back like a spineless coward.”

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Book:Revolution Indomable
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“Skinner shared how he came to worship an elite White Jesus Christ, who cleaned people up through “rules and regulations,” a savior who prefigured Richard Nixon’s vision of law and order. But one day, Skinner realized that he’d gotten Jesus wrong. Jesus wasn’t in the Rotary Club and he wasn’t a policeman. Jesus was a “radical revolutionary, with hair on his chest and dirt under his fingernails.” Skinner’s new idea of Jesus was born of and committed to a new reading of the gospel. “Any gospel that does not … speak to the issue of enslavement” and “injustice” and “inequality—any gospel that does not want to go where people are hungry and poverty-stricken and set them free in the name of Jesus Christ—is not the gospel.”

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Book:How to Be an Antiracist
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“I would never accept a world where Hank might be told: “I’m sorry, but while your cancer has a 92% cure rate when treated properly, there just aren’t adequate resources in the world to make that treatment available to you.” That world would be so obviously and unacceptably unjust. So how can I live in a world where Henry and his family are told that? How can I accept a world where over a million people will die this year for want of a cure that has existed for nearly a century?”

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Author:John Green
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“This season is a leveler. The 'shege' is right in your breast pocket. I know families in this country (Nigeria) who have no access to justice, simply because they cannot afford the bills. This is a grim form of inequality we have not had enough conversation about. The scarcity of money is threatening both law and society. The affluent wax stronger, but the rest of us…Jack London calls The People of the Abyss.”

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Author:Peter-Cole C. Onele
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“Saya tahu apa sebabnya mereka itu begitu takutnya kepada saya. Saya lah satu-satunya perempuan yang telah membuka kedok mereka dan memperlihatkan muka kenyataan buruk mereka. Mereka menghukum saya sampai mati bukan karena saya telah membunuh seorang lelaki —beribu-ribu orang yang dibunuh tiap hari— tetapi karena mereka takut untuk membiarkan saya hidup. Mereka tahu bahwa selama saya masih hidup mereka tidak akan aman, bahwa saya akan membunuh mereka. Hidup saya berarti kematian mereka. Kematian saya berarti hidup mereka. Mereka ingin hidup. Dan hidup bagi mereka berarti semakin banyak kejahatan, semakin banyak perampokan, perampasan yang tak terbatas. Saya telah memang atas keduanya, kehidupan dan kematian, karena saya sudah tidak lagi mempunyai hasrat untuk hidup, juga tidak lagi merasa takut mati. Saya tidak mengharapkan apa-apa. Saya tidak takut apa-apa. Karena selama hidup itu adalah keinginan, harapan, ketakutan kita yang memperbudak kita. Kebebasan yang saya nikmati membuat mereka marah. Mereka ingin mengetahui, bahwa bagaimanapun juga ada sesuatu yang saya inginkan, harapkan, dan takutkan. Kemudian mereka akan tahu bahwa mereka dapat memperbudak saya lagi.”

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Book:Woman at Point Zero
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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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“[F]or most jobs that are not slavery conditions, American employers expect newcomers, if fortunate enough to be considered, to have a strong command of the English language. Yet, for Western expats in other countries, the colonially written job posts always make it clear that speaking the language of that country is ‘a plus, but not required.’ In brief, American education and qualifications are treated as sacred, while those acquired elsewhere are untrustworthy and must be proven all over again.”

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Author:Louis Yako
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“From a mathematical point of view, however, trust is hard to quantify. That's a challenge for people building models. Sadly, it's far easier to keep counting arrests, to build models that assume we're birds of a feather and treat us as such. Innocent people surrounded by criminals get treated badly, and criminals surrounded by law-abiding public get a pass. And because of the strong correlation between poverty and reported crime, the poor continue to get caught up in the digital dragnets. The rest of us barely have to think about them.”

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Book:Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
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“It’s the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It’s the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them. It’s the process of being used, examined, explored, and thrown away. It’s the process of being convinced to comply with the orders of someone who does not see me as their equal, someone who sees nothing wrong with the notion that I’m somehow lesser than they are. Rape isn’t about sex; it’s about all those other things. It’s about power.”

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Author:Agnostic Zetetic
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“Justice requires not only the ceasing and desisting of injustice but also requires either punishment or reparation for injuries and damages inflicted for prior wrongdoing. The essence of justice is the redistribution of gains earned through the perpetration of injustice. If restitution is not made and reparations not instituted to compensate for prior injustices, those injustices are in effect rewarded. And the benefits such rewards conferred on the perpetrators of injustice will continue to "draw interest," to be reinvested, and to be passed on to their children, who will use their inherited advantages to continue to exploit the children of the victims of the injustices of their ancestors. Consequently, injustice and inequality will be maintained across the generations as will their deleterious social, economic, and political outcomes.”

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Author:Amos Wilson
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“At its most basic, the logic of 'meritocracy' is ironclad: putting the most qualified, best equipped people into the positions of greates responsibility and import...But my central contention is that our near-religious fidelity to the meritocratic model comes with huge costs. We overestimate the advantages of meritocracy and underappreciate its costs, because we don't think hard enough about the consequences of the inequality it produces. As Americans, we take it as a given that unequal levels of achievement are natural, even desirable. Sociologist Jermole Karabel, whose work looks at elite formation, once said he 'didnt think any advanced democracy is as obsessed with equality of opportunity or as relatively unconcerned with equality of condition' as the United States. This is our central problem. And my proposed solution for correcting the excesses of our extreme version of meritocracy is quite simple: make America more equal”

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Book:Twilight of the Elites: America After Meritocracy
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“The White Falcon by Stewart Stafford Trampled pomegranate underfoot, Fervent ascent of anatine steps, To the alabaster falcon's chamber, Viperine slither as a king's retinue. Roman breakage for a concubine, Stillbirths piled on a spiral staircase, Skewered tongues spitting smears, Spurious sparks fanned to an inferno. Denounced in the toxic public mind, Cast into a wolf pit by kangaroo court, Blood money to the Gallic executioner, Her headless ghost in a centuries' limbo. © Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”

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Author:Stewart Stafford
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