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“Grief is a house on fire. It needs to burn itself down.”
― Margaret Owen,

“Books are meant to be touched, otherwise they’re useless.”
― R.F. Kuang, Babel

“You see, we think individualistically, and we assume that only heroic individuals can make history. That is why we like to focus on Dr. Martin Luther King, who was a great man, but in my opinion his greatness resided precisely in the fact that he learned from a collective movement.”
― Angela Y. Davis

“With the establishment of a relationship of oppression, violence has already begun. Never in history has violence been initiated by the oppressed. How could they be the initiators, if they themselves are the result of violence? How could they be the sponsors of something whose objective inauguration called forth their existence as op­pressed? There would be no oppressed had there been no prior situation of violence to establish their subjugation.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed