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- We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women-whose stories, for all our differences,…
- I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies…
- The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It…
- Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in…
- Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
- All prisons that have existed in our society to date put people away as no human being should ever be put away.
- The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.
- We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting…
- The longer we listen to one another - with real attention - the more commonality we will find in all our lives. That is, if…
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- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
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