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The essence of the Power of Context is that the same thing is true for certain kinds of environments—that in ways that we don’t necessarily appreciate, our inner states are the result of our outer circumstances.
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
The same Paul who wrote that we are to submit to authority goes to jail for subverting authority. I suggest that there are two ways to respectfully submit to authority: (1) obeying the good laws and (2) disobeying the bad laws openly and being willing to suffer the consequences, thereby exposing injustice and making a spectacle of it.
The Irresistible Revolution
Shane Claiborne
Democracy, by strenuously denying the fact of inequality, does enable us, to a surprising extent, to act as if it didn’t exist; but it does exist, and we know it. So our job is to keep the inequity of power as small as possible, and refuse to let our common humanity be reduced, however slightly, even by a careless word, by an assertion of unequal worth.
No Time to Spare
Ursula K. Le Guin, Karen Joy Fowler (Introduction)
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