3:56am June 5, 2014

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I don’t really believe that most people realize that:

A) they have power
B) they routinely abuse that power
C) their behaviour is invisible onto to themselves
D) their responsibility isn’t diminished because they “didn’t mean to…”

A black woman activist, her name lost to history, writing in the United States over a century ago, said “All power seems natural to those who hold it.” This is an astounding observation. This means that once you have power in your grasp it seems so natural, so normal, so “the way it should be” that you don’t even realize it’s there.

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