What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“I say solidarity is knowing the future is long and wide, with room for everyone on earth to enter. I say it's taking the… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“Love is subversive, undermining the propaganda of narrow self-interest. Love emphasizes connection, responsibility and the joy we take in each other. Therefore love (as… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“The life I chose when I promised my six-year-old self never to forget being a child, never to grow frightened and dishonest like the… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
The spiritual is whatever allows us to notice the miraculous nature of life. — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“The role of a socially committed historian is to use history, not so much to documentthe past as to restore to the dehistoricized a… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“I am not african. Africa is in me, but I cannot return. I am not taina. Taino is in me, but there is no… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“To do exciting, empowering research and leave it in academic journals and university libraries is like manufacturing unaffordable medicines for deadly diseases. We need… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“When we rely on written records we need to continually ask ourselves what might be missing, what might have been recorded in order to… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“The only way to bear the overwhelming pain of oppression is by telling, in all its detail, in the presence of witnesses and in… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“…it is no longer useful to…keep defining and elaborating our understandings of the exact nature of racism, sexism, class and sexual orientation as if… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“They are charged with trespassing, which means being on your own land when somebody else wants it.” — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
