After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, … - Alice Walker

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Sometimes in life, we have to go backward a certain distance in order to go forwards. If we have conflicts within ourselves that we have not resolved, then we will find ourselves living inside of these conflicts, not in the realms of light.

Alice Walker

After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?

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People who work hard often work too hard. . . . May we learn to honor the hammock, the siesta, the nap and the pause in all its forms.

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Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

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Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

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Any God I ever found in church, I brought in myself.

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It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.

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