If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in the…

Desmond Tutu
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If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
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