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We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil. -Martin Luther King Jr.

1/2 "As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it—"

All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They! -Rudyard Kipling

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early. -George Will

You can't have a democracy when people don't learn to put themselves in the shoes of another person, who can't think what their policies mean for others. -Martha Nussbaum

In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator. -Judith Lewis Herman