







Thomas Paine's version of "you didn't build that":
"Separate an individual from society,and give him an island or a continent to possess,and he cannot acquire personal property. He cannot be rich. So inseparably are the means connected with the end,in all cases,that where the former do not exist the latter cannot be obtained. All accumulation, therefore,of personal property,beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice,of gratitude,and of civilization,a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came"
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These horrors were able to happen because of a mindset that was shared by the country’s church, government, and even its general population. |
Rape, beatings and humiliation were the childhood experiences for many of the 170,000 boys and girls who were taken into care by the Irish State throughout the 20th Century and placed in residential schools, run by the Catholic Church. This past summer, after decades of denial their memories were finally acknowledged in a set of reports which have made headlines all over the world. The Irish journalist, Sinead O’Shea, reports for People & Power. |
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