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- All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational…
- I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all the…
- Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to…
- I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand…
- Professors rarely speak of the place of eros or the erotic in our classrooms. Trained in the philosophical context of Western metaphysical dualism, many of…
- Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and…
- Spirituality and spiritual life give us the strength to love.
- Why is it so difficult for many white folks to understand that racism is oppressive not because white folks have prejudicial feelings about blacks (they…
- Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.
- We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of us deny this…
- Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us,…
- When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from…
- Widespread cultural acceptance of lying is a primary reason many of us will never know love
- Feminist thinking teaches us all, especially, how to love justice and freedom in ways that foster and affirm life.
- Women have endeavored to guide men to love because patriarchal thinking has sanctioned this work even as it has undermined it by teaching men to…
- Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can…
- Knowing love or the hope of knowing love is the anchor that keeps us from falling into that sea of despair.
- Most of us find it difficult to accept a definition of love that says we are never loved in a context where there is abuse.
- Contrary to what some folks would have us believe, it is not tragic, even if undesirable, for a person to leave a liberal arts education…
- When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly…
More Us Quotes
- Sometimes I think that life would be how much easier if we don't have heart. Because it is the heart which puts… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- Dreams are what keep us going when real life lets us down. — Nishan Panwar