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No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality QUOTES

1 " even when we pursue limited reforms, we should be sure that they will not strengthen the system we wish to end. Instead, those who seek change should strengthen entities outside the state. “Structural reform is by definition a reform implemented or controlled by those who demand it,” wrote Gorz. Be it in agriculture, the university, property relations, the region, the administration, the economy, etc., a structural reform always requires the creation of new centers of democratic power. Whether "

― Jordan Flaherty , No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality

2 " If [international] aid does not address the structural issues that create injustice, then it only creates a more stable status quo, locking injustice into place. "

― Jordan Flaherty , No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality

3 " We need to stop thinking we can "rescue" the world from problems we helped create. Haiti has no money because the United States, France, and other colonial powers stole it. When we buy a twenty-dollar shirt that a Haitian was paid pennies to make, we are continuing to steal from them. When a U.S. aid worker in Haiti is paid a salary equivalent to that of fifty Haitians, we are continuing to steal from them. This is not aid. Aid is reparations. Relief is overthrowing a system of colonial domination, and eliminating debt. Support is standing in solidarity with Haitians ... [who] are organizing and fighting and leading their own struggles for an end to colonialism. "

― Jordan Flaherty , No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality

4 " What are the actions for social justice and movement building that don’t center you as a protagonist? "

― Jordan Flaherty , No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality

5 " when you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.4 "

― Jordan Flaherty , No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality