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![“This kind of totalization of security consciousness [after tragedy of 9/11] has the effect within classrooms (and beyond) of constraining the imagination and reinforcing attitudes that privilege the forces of law and order as against the crosscurrents of freedom and dissent.” quote by Richard A. Falk](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1ea/richard-a-falk-8295_attitude_this-kind-of-totalization-of-security-co_2263131.jpg)
![“Since the president's [Barack Obama] lost all of that [majority in Senate], he now has decided he's just going to write laws on his own. He's going to give us edicts, as if he's a king. And that is a petulant child. He's refusing to listen to the will of the American people, which is they reject…” quote by Chris Christie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/46f/chris-christie-1382_american-people_since-the-president-s-barack-obama-lost_1365726.jpg)
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![“[Muslims] who are here and who are behaving according to our laws and our constitutions are happy to stay, are equal to anybody else, or even want to help them with the better education, but if they cross the line of crime, start acting according to Sharia law, there will be no place for them in…” quote by Geert Wilders](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7b0/geert-wilders-1869_acting_muslims-who-are-here-and-who-are-behavin_2810331.png)
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