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We can, as those in charge would like, continue to define ourselves
primarily by neatly described identities -- either natural or acquired.
We can remain interminably and ineffectually absorbed and angry about
the particulars of infinite special injustices. Or we can ask what is it
that makes our society seem so unfair to so many who are so different?
If the young black in Watts and the militia member in Montana and the
mother of six in Dorchester share untended miseries, might not those
miseries share some common origins? Can we find universal stories in
particular pain? If we can, it is the beginning of true change. - Sam
Smith
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We can, as those in charge would like, continue to define ourselves
primarily by neatly described identities -- either natural or acquired.
We can remain interminably and ineffectually absorbed and angry about
the particulars of infinite special injustices. Or we can ask what is it
that makes our society seem so unfair to so many who are so different?
If the young black in Watts and the militia member in Montana and the
mother of six in Dorchester share untended miseries, might not those
miseries share some common origins? Can we find universal stories in
particular pain? If we can, it is the beginning of true change. - Sam
Smith
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