“It is an historical commonplace that social explosions take place when most of the fundamental causes of dissatisfaction have been removed and only a few remain. This is the result of a feeling of power.”

— C. L. R. James, book Beyond a Boundary

Source: Beyond a Boundary (1963), p. 229

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