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There’s something about the smells of your childhood, isn’t there? Even when that childhood was short and flavored by bitterness and ended in catastrophe, in a disaster of devastating proportions, you still remember those small, sublime
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“To be embedded in a consumerist culture without money is to be constantly reminded of her inability to meet her child’s desires.”
― This Is What Inequality Looks Like
― This Is What Inequality Looks Like
“The inclination by class-privileged women and men to reject the domestic realm because we see and know that it is the sphere of less power – it is an inclination that gives up too much and we must claw it back… we need reasonable employment conditions across the class spectrum and social policies that are not class-biased but genuinely supportive of all families.”
― This Is What Inequality Looks Like
― This Is What Inequality Looks Like
“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.”
― This Is What Inequality Looks Like
― This Is What Inequality Looks Like
“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.”
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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.”
― The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria
― The Chibok Girls: The Boko Haram Kidnappings and Islamist Militancy in Nigeria
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