We are in a society where the power is in the hands of those who are the worst breed of humanity.
-- Malcolm X
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We are in a society where the power is in the hands of those who are the worst breed of humanity. The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today. I am unique. My flesh is not their flesh, my mind is not their mind. Humanity can not be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist, it is worse than mockery to pronounce men equal. The critical human flaw is not that as a species we're particularly aggressive. It's that we tend to respond to aggression very poorly. So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men. Anarchy will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require the protection of governmental power and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power. All my political ideas boil down to this formula: political federation or decentralization. The state, therefore, is the most flagrant, the most cynical, and the most complete negation of humanity. |