Justice Quote by Carolina De Robertis

“It is love that pushes us to face the journey toward justice without flinching, love that impels us to keep going on the long, hard road, love that provides the moral compass and the map.” quote by Carolina De Robertis — Download Open image

““It is love that pushes us to face the journey toward justice without flinching, love that impels us to keep going on the long, hard road, love that provides the moral compass and the map.””

Carolina De Robertis

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“What makes the self? Experiences. Acculturation. What else? I don't know. What's within you. She says, I don't know what was within me and…

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“Dissent is verbal resistance. It is the affirmation of our voices, of our worth. It is, in a democracy, a fundamental right. And, in…

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“I work hard to embody you, Mama Harriet. When I learned that after you escaped, your brothers had second thoughts and turned back, but you kept going, it gave me the strength to keep going. When I learned that you went back to bring your husband to freedom, and he refused to come with you, instead electing to stay with…

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“She was awake, alive, full of ideas like branches in a greenhouse, growing thick and rife against the glass.”

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“You see, Mama Harriet, the conundrum that you encountered is the same set of contradictions that we encounter. We had a Black president who…

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“No, I wanted to say, he didn't cut off her hands because he didn't have to, he had cut them off long before, with years of keeping all authority in his own palms, all the rules and all the power and all the answers emanating from him and no one else. And if you don't understand that, if you've never…

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“Nothing changes if we just feel shitty about being White. And nothing changes if we refuse to talk about it. The opposite of white pride does not have to be white shame. We can’t push it away and pretend it’s not us. We are not color-blind, we are not post-race, we do not get to reject our whiteness because it…

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“I want to believe in prophecies more than policies. I want to listen to poets rather than pollsters.”

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“The human story is one of continual branching movement, out of Africa to every corner of the globe. When people talk of blood and…

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“James Baldwin’s “My Dungeon Shook—Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,” published in The Fire Next Time in 1963 (the…

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“There's that feeling that comes when you read something and the lines speak directly to you, and to you only, even though the person…

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“He was like a bottle and music was the wine… She liked to be near him when it poured.”

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