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The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. we are a species that makes changes.
-Tillie Olsen
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The Fact That Human Beings Do Not

Tillie Olsen
The fact that human beings do not put up forever with misery, humiliation, degradation, actual physical deprivation but act is a fact which every human being should know about. we are a species that makes changes.
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And people who believe in god think god has put human beings on earth because they think human beings are the best animal, but human beings are just an animal and they will evolve into another animal, and that animal will be cleverer and it will put human beings into a zoo, like we put chimpanzees and gorillas into a zoo. or human beings will all catch a disease and die out or they will make too much pollution and kill themselves, and then there will only be insects in the world and they will be the best animal.
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The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. they are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. it corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. in one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.
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It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. we are animals, after all. homo sapiens is a species of primate, a biological phenomenon dominated by biological rules, like any other species. human nature is no more than one particular kind of animal nature. agreed, the human species is an extraordinary animal; but all other species are also extraordinary animals, each in their own way, and the scientific man-watcher can bring many fresh insights to the study of human affairs if he can retain this basic attitude of evolutionary humility.
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