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

— Derrick Jensen The Culture of Make Believe (2003)

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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)

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.

The Culture of Make Believe (2003)

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)

People often say that violence accomplishes nothing, that it's ineffective. Violence is dreadfully effective. That's why those in power use it.

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law [this quote is referring to English Common Law].

Thomas Jefferson Vol. 1 Whether Christianity is Part of the Common Law (1764)

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