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Quotes from Getting Home Alive with Rosario Morales — Aurora Levins Morales

born 1954 Puerto Rico

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I am new. History made me. My first language was spanglish.
I was born at the crossroads
and I am whole.

Getting Home Alive with Rosario Morales (1986)

I have learned that suffering does not improve people, that slavery does not ennoble us for freedom, that oppression springs from oppression, echoing the twisted lessons we learn from our pain.

Getting Home Alive with Rosario Morales (1986)

The first rule I remember learning was never to harm or deface a book. The second was never to cross a picket line. (Introduction/Acknowledgements)

Getting Home Alive with Rosario Morales (1986)

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 long view of the job. (from "Letter To a Compañero")

Getting Home Alive with Rosario Morales (1986)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aurora Levins Morales (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.