No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear | The Nation

No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear | The Nation

"We may also delude ourselves into thinking that our efforts to “civilize” or “pacify” other countries are not about money. Slavery was always about money: free labor producing money for owners and industries." 

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