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> [“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 that, like it or not,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/solidarity-is-not-a-matter-of-altruism-solidarity-comes-from-the/)

[Aurora Levins Morales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aurora-levins-morales/)

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> [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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/solidarity-is-not-a-matter-of-altruism-solidarity-comes-from-the-2/)

[Aurora Levins Morales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aurora-levins-morales/)

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## More by Aurora Levins Morales

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/i-say-solidarity-is-knowing-the-future-is-long-and-wide-with-room-for/)

[Aurora Levins Morales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aurora-levins-morales/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/love-is-subversive-undermining-the-propaganda-of-narrow-self-interest/)

[Aurora Levins Morales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aurora-levins-morales/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/the-life-i-chose-when-i-promised-my-six-year-old-self-never-to-forget/)

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> [The spiritual is whatever allows us to notice the miraculous nature of life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/the-spiritual-is-whatever-allows-us-to-notice-the-miraculous-nature/)

[Aurora Levins Morales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aurora-levins-morales/)

> [“The role of a socially committed historian is to use history, not so much to documentthe past as to restore to the dehistoricized a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/the-role-of-a-socially-committed-historian-is-to-use-history-not-so/)

[Aurora Levins Morales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aurora-levins-morales/)

> [“I am not african. Africa is in me, but I cannot return. I am not taina. Taino is in me, but there is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/i-am-not-african-africa-is-in-me-but-i-cannot-return-i-am-not-taina/)

[Aurora Levins Morales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aurora-levins-morales/)

> [“To do exciting, empowering research and leave it in academic journals and university libraries is like manufacturing unaffordable medicines for deadly diseases. We need…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/to-do-exciting-empowering-research-and-leave-it-in-academic-journals/)

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> [“When we rely on written records we need to continually ask ourselves what might be missing, what might have been recorded in order to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/when-we-rely-on-written-records-we-need-to-continually-ask-ourselves/)

[Aurora Levins Morales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aurora-levins-morales/)

> [“The only way to bear the overwhelming pain of oppression is by telling, in all its detail, in the presence of witnesses and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/the-only-way-to-bear-the-overwhelming-pain-of-oppression-is-by/)

[Aurora Levins Morales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aurora-levins-morales/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/the-whole-point-of-anti-semitism-has-been-to-create-a-vulnerable/)

[Aurora Levins Morales](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aurora-levins-morales/)

> [“…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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/it-is-no-longer-useful-to-keep-defining-and-elaborating-our/)

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> [“They are charged with trespassing, which means being on your own land when somebody else wants it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/they-are-charged-with-trespassing-which-means-being-on-your-own-land/)

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> [“Now listen to me. I will not walk on one-way streets any longer. Your wound is my wound, (though you don't know that mine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/now-listen-to-me-i-will-not-walk-on-one-way-streets-any-longer-your/)

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> [“I want to see a flowering of Arab and Jewish cultures in a country without racism or anti-Semitism, without rich or poor or spat-upon:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/i-want-to-see-a-flowering-of-arab-and-jewish-cultures-in-a-country/)

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> [“I wonder what it must have been like, what dignity it must have conferred on children of the Iroquois confederacy that any child over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aurora-levins-morales/i-wonder-what-it-must-have-been-like-what-dignity-it-must-have/)

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