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The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
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The image compares tools for change with the structure they were made to serve. It suggests that using the same methods, rules, or assumptions that sustain an unjust system may not be enough to remove that system. Real change may require approaches that do not simply reproduce the existing structure.
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