Friday, November 5, 2010

"Living with the daily ugliness of slum life,

educational castration and economic exploitation, some ghetto dwellers now and then strike out in spasms of violence and self-defeating riots. A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard. It is the desperate, suicidal cry of one who is so fed up with the powerlessness of his cave existence that he asserts that he would rather be dead than ignored. (112)
-Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

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