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Harvard professor Robert Putnam documents a marked decline in American social capital, and notes that commute time is more predictive than almost any other variable he measured in determining civic engagement. He states that "each ten additional minutes in daily commuting time cuts involvement in community affairs by ten percent-fewer public meetings attended, fewer committees chaired, fewer petitions signed, fewer church services attended, and so on.”
Life in a war zone was a life shaped by precaution. It meant carrying around a gas mask when out (the University of Hawaii graduates processed in cap and gown and gas mask).
How to Hide an Empire
Daniel Immerwahr
The only thing white people have that black people need, or should want, is power—and no one holds power forever.
The Fire Next Time
James Baldwin
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