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Thomas Pogge

"Think of US slavery in 1850, or the subjection of women. Both of these injustices could have been - and were! - defended by pointing out, quite correctly, that this situation of slaves and women had been improving throughout the preceding century. Slaves, in particular, were worked less hard, beaten and raped less frequently, better fed, and less often ripped apart from their families. So would a celebration of moral progress have been appropriate in 1850? Surely not. Slavery could have been and should have been abolished - then, if not before."

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Thomas Pogge

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“When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.”
“I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell, And His own face to see.”

Source : Ralph Hodgson (1961). “Collected Poems”, London, Macmillan
“It is a common law of nature, which no time will ever change, that superiors shall rule their inferiors.”
“Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this functional cosmology, we can overcome our alienation and begin the renewal of life on a sustainable basis. This story is a numinous revelatory story that could evoke the vision and the energy required to bring not only ourselves but the entire planet into a new order of magnificence.”
“I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.”
“Shura, Iâ€™m yours. You may not like it today, you may not want it tonight, you may wish for it all to be different now, but it remains, and I remain, as always, only yours. Nothing can change that. Not your wrath, your fists, your body or your death.”
“I wanted to tell her that sometimes, in my long sleep, I dreamt of her”
“New York City is a living organism; It evolves, it devolves, it fluctuates as a living organism. So my relationship with New York City is as vitriolic as the relationship with myself and with any other human being which means that it changes every millisecond, that it's in constant fluctuation.”

Source : "The Cruise". Documentary, 1998.

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