When a life comes into my hands, all my hope and love and my energy go to support that life, to help that life to grow to its fullness, because this person has been created in the image of God. We have no right to destroy that life.—- Mother Teresa
“There are two sets of principles. They are the principles of power and privilege and the principles of truth and justice. If you pursue truth and justice it will always mean a diminution of power and privilege. If you pursue power and privilege, it will always be at the expense of truth and justice.” —Chris … More Tuesday September 22, 2020
“Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.” —bell hooks
“People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They’re not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That’s really threatening.” —Noam Chomsky
“A German officer visited Picasso in his studio during WWII. There he saw Guernica and shocked at the modernist ‘chaos’ of the painting asked him, ‘Did you do this?’ Picasso calmly replied, ‘No, you did this!’” —Slavoj Zizek
“Each and every time you shift your limited perspective to a perspective of wholeness, you are raising the collective consciousness. Every time you heal or transform a stale limited belief, you are adding to the light of the collective consciousness. Every time.” —Peggy Black
“You have more power within your being than you can ever imagine. Practice being at peace, and you will experience peace, no matter the external conditions . . . . Right now, the world needs your peace. We are rarely so urgent in our requests, but now is the time to be the change you … More Thursday September 17, 2020
The only people on earth who do not see Christ and his teachings as nonviolent are Christians. —– Gandhi
“War is manufactured by political leaders, who then must make a tremendous effort—by enticement, by propaganda, by coercion—to mobilize a normally reluctant population to go to war. “ —Howard Zinn
“Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction! Be heroes in an army of construction!” —Helen Keller
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