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In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.
Warrior of the Light
Paulo Coelho
As early as 1857, they began forcing Africans to pay taxes, which compelled African households to send family members to the mines and plantations for work. Those who didn’t pay taxes were punished – so there was always the threat of violence lurking in the background.
__Social problems, conceptualized in technical terms, are freed from the cultural, psychological, and linguistic contexts that constitute the lens of social tradition.__ Breaking the ‘‘recipes of tradition’’ and ‘‘ordinary knowledge’’ through the power of this unique abstract language, the neopositivist form of thought creates an illusion of cultural and historical transcendence, which in turn sustains a sense of political, cultural, and moral neutrality
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment - The Politics of Local Knowledge
Frank Fischer
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