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“The people copy their rules, just as children ape their parents. Violence is a symptom of a dysfunctional system, where people have no patience for or confidence in due process. The poor don't believe they can get justice from the courts, because usually they can't; the elite know the system is rigged because they rigged it. The ones at the top keep the door shut because they don't want to share the spoils of office. Actual violence, or the thread of it, helps to keep the populace in check, just as poverty does.”
― Helon Habila, The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria

“power is not a frame of mind but a material condition. People sitting in positions of authority are powerful not because they feel empowered but because they have power.”
― You Yenn Teo, This Is What Inequality Looks Like

“At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,
since we are made of earth and rain.”
― Pablo Neruda, Regalo de un Poeta

“I can see why Passion and Purpose are so attracted to each other. She’s fascinated by his energy and intensity, and he admires her sense of focus, how she can always find her way without making a fuss. She calms and steadies him, he makes her feel alive.”
― alvin pang