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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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The image compares tools for change with the structure they were made to serve. It suggests that using the same methods, rules, or assumptions that sustain an unjust system may not be enough to remove that system. Real change may require approaches that do not simply reproduce the existing structure.
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“Untuk seseorang wanita itu naik dalam politik, dia mesti diterima oleh lelaki.”
“I suppose I must call myself a slave for I am the colour of those of whom you made slaves.”
“El periodismo, el periodista es alguien que está distante del poder para ayudar a poner ese poder al servicio de la gente.”
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“To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.”
“Я назвал бы сатирический театр и самым веселым, и самым серьезным театром, который ставит наиболее злободневные вопросы нашей жизни.”
“an intellectual working like a happy slave, but no more happy when treated like a slave.”
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