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Du Bois argued that cooperatives would provide the economic opportunities denied to African Americans, and would allow Blacks to serve the common good rather
Jessica Gordon Nembhard • Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice
There is one overmastering problem that the socially and politically disinherited always face: Under what terms is survival possible?
Howard Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
In other words, a poor kid in the US is nearly four times more likely to graduate from college than a foster kid.
Rob Henderson • Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

a science is taken up as a matter of business, and the only branch of it which is attended to is such as admits of an immediate practical application.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
La seule façon de sauvegarder la complexité d’une société, c’est-à-dire ses libertés, avec un minimum d’autorité répressive, ne peut être autre chose que le sentiment vécu d’appartenance à la communauté.
Edgar Morin • La Voie : Pour l'avenir de l'Humanité (Essais) (French Edition)
They appear to want some of the same things most of us want: recognition from their peers and communities and better lives for the people they care about. Being
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Programming as Theory Building
Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" discusses programming as a knowledge-building activity, emphasizing the importance of tacit knowledge, collaboration, and effective documentation in developing and maintaining software systems.
ratfactor.comFirst popularized in the 1960s by anthropologist Oscar Lewis, culture of poverty theories argued that low-income people share inherent characteristics and values that keep them impoverished.