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If a rebellion is small and just starting, it looks crazy; but if it begins to succeed, lasts, and builds up momentum, it inevitably legitimizes itself.

— Mark Ames Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion, From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond (2005)

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Once you start seeing injustice in one place, it's like taking off blinders- you start to see injustice everywhere, and how it is all connected.

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They searched all over the world for a motive, except for one place: the scene of the crime.

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You have to have never been bullied to think that it teaches something valuable and necessary and makes you a stronger person.

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Cruel and callous when on top, afraid and smiling all the way to the grave when not- that pretty much sums up the post-Reagan zeitgeist.

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Anything, no matter how bizarre, was cited as the cause for slave rebellions except for the most obvious source: slavery.

Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion, From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond (2005)

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