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1 " Darwin did not know what a bitter satire he wrote on mankind ... when he showed that free competition, the struggle for existence, which the economists celebrate as the highest historical achievement, is the normal state of the animal kingdom. Only conscious organization of social production, in which production and distribution are carried on in a planned way, can lift mankind above the rest of the animal. "
― Friedrich Engels
2 " Not being interested in other cultures is the normal state of mankind. "
― Bernard Lewis , The Muslim Discovery of Europe
3 " People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave. "
― Assata Shakur , Assata: An Autobiography
