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In ancient Rome, purple clothing symbolized power. But many garments were imitations made from plant dyes, allowing ordinary people to display elite status. Has anything really changed?
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Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/roman-purple-dye-faked-00102330

A quotation from Thoreau

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)

More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…

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"The magazine’s politics were what passes for center-left in the United States. […] The operating orthodoxy was that police killings, CIA coups, black site torture, and institutional misogyny were aberrations, deviations from the American norm that would eventually be corrected when the arc of the moral universe, long as it is, finally got around to them."

by Ismail Ibrahim: https://bidoun.org/articles/house-arab

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