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  1. David Graeber _ Fragments of an Anarchist

    ... most Amazonians don't want to give others the power to threaten them with physical injury if they don't do as they are told. Maybe we should better be asking what it says about ourselves that we feel this attitude needs any sort of explanation.
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  2. George Lakoff _ Don't Think of an Elephant!

    If you believe in the eighteenth century view of the mind, you will look and act wimpy. You will think that all you need to do is give people the facts and the figures and they will reach the right conclusion. You will think that all you need to do is point out where their interests lie, and they will act politically to maximize them. You will believe in polling and focus groups: you will believe that if you ask people what their interests are, they will be aware of them and will tell you, and will vote on it. You will not have any need to appeal to emotion---indeed, to do so would be wrong! You will not have to speak of values; facts and figures will suffice. You will not have to change people's brains; their reason should be enough. You will not have to frame the facts; they will speak for themselves. You just have to get the facts to them...
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  3. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ We Were Eight Years in Power:

    Black people are not the descendants of kings. We are-and I say this with big pride-the progeny of slaves. If there's any majesty in our struggle, it lies not in fairy tales but in those humble origins and the great distance we've traveled since. Ditto for the dreams of a separate but noble past. Cosby's, and much of black America's, conservative analysis flattens history and smooths over the wrinkles that have characterized black America since its inception.
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  4. Tom Stoppard _ Jumpers

    It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
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  5. Cornel West _ Black Prophetic Fire

    There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America's jails who were so taken by Malcolm {X's} spirit that they became warriors and the powers that be understood them as warriors. They knew that a lot of these other middle-class {black} leaders were not warriors; they were professionals; they were careerists. But these warriors had callings, and they have paid an incalculable and immeasurable price in those cells.
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  6. Aberjhani _ Splendid Literarium: A

    On either side of a potentially violent conflict, an opportunity exists to exercise compassion and diminish fear based on recognition of each other's humanity. Without such recognition, fear fueled by uninformed assumptions, cultural prejudice, desperation to meet basic human needs, or the panicked uncertainty of the moment explodes into violence.
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  7. Aberjhani _ Illuminated Corners: Collected

    The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it, to heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries, and to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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  8. Aberjhani _ Splendid Literarium: A

    Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the lives of those who inhabit one's beloved extended community."
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  9. Niccolò Machiavelli _ The Prince

    Injuries, therefore, should be inflicted all at once, that their ill savour being less lasting may the less offend; whereas, benefits should be conferred little by little, that so they may be more fully relished.
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  10. Thomas Sowell _ The Quest for Cosmic Justice

    As history has also shown, especially in the twentieth century, one of the first things an ideologue will do after achieving absolute power is kill.
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  11. Ayn Rand _ Atlas Shrugged

    Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of production and trade...
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  12. Thomas Jefferson _ Letters of Thomas Jefferson

    And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers.
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