Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothin…

Simone Weil
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Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand. ✨ Simone Weil (1978). Lectures on Philosophy, p.139, Cambridge University Press
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