Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration in the oppression of others, and from the deep recognition of our most expansive self-interest.… — 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 long view of the job. Helping you onto the wall, so you can reach down and pull me up. Lifting you into the tree, so you can shake down peaches for two. That solidarity is a… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share
“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 sense of identity and possibility. Such 'medicinal' histories seek to re-establish the connections between peoples and their histories, to reveal the mechanisms of power, the steps by which their current condition of oppression was achieved through… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share
“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 to share our work in ways that people can assimilate, not in the private languages and forms of scholars...Those who are hungriest for what we dig up don't read scholarly journals and shouldn't have to. As… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share
“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 a context of resistance, how unbearable it is. If we attempt to craft resistance without understanding this task, we are collectively vulnerable to all the errors of judgement that unresolved trauma generates in individuals. It is… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share
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 of others, and then, when social pressure builds, be blamed and scapegoated, distracting those at the bottom from the crimes of those at the top. Peasants who go on pogrom against their Jewish neighbors won't make… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share
“…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
