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Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
Curator
Film Director
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Stuff
Change
Explodes
Wounded
Experienced
Injustice
Deeply
Flesh

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