Grace PaleyWe are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.
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We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid. The elite can do anything they want to us. They can call their thoughts freedom, but they are not.
Freedom is what we believe in our hearts that makes us human, it makes us better than animals. Without freedom there is no humanity, only slavery.
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