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Given the current levels of violence by this culture against both humans and the natural world, however, it's not possible to speak of reductions in population and consumption that do not involve violence and privation, not because the reductions themselves would necessarily involve violence, but because violence and privation have become the default of our culture.

— Derrick Jensen Endgame (2006)

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If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.

The Culture of Make Believe (2003)

From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.

Endgame (2006)

To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.

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From the perspective of those who are entitled, the problems begin when those they despise do not go along with--and have the power and wherewithal to not go along with--the perceived entitlement.

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I quit work two weeks later--having sold another eighty of my hours--and knew I could never again work a regular job.

A Language Older Than Words (2000)

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