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Quotes from Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals — Aurora Levins Morales

born 1954 Puerto Rico

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Every vital social movement immediately begins to generate art-songs, poetry, posters, murals, novels-an outpouring of the creativity that people will create from even the smallest crumbs of hope.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

The denial of our interrelatedness is killing this planet and too many of its people.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

For human society to be sustainable on earth, it must become inclusive, must take into account the well-being of each one of us.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

I have tried to integrate healing myself and healing the world.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

Without any form of political representation, children remain in many senses the property of the adults in their lives.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

Storytelling is a basic human activity, with which we simultaneously make and understand the world and our place in it.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

Profit is built on inequality, which is incompatible with sustainability.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

The foundational crime of this country is indigenous genocide.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

Cultural work, the work of infusing people's imaginations with possibility, with the belief in a bigger future, is the essential fuel of revolutionary fire.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

Our society is individualistic to the point of insanity. Concern for the common good is ridiculed as naive, and the skills of people from more communally oriented cultures are seen as liabilities.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

Only through mourning can we reconnect to the love in our lives and lose our fascination with the ones who harmed us.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

A fully just society in which human potential is never despised or thrown away is possible only if that invitation to a restoration of integrity and community is always open.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

We are so vulnerable in our pleasures and desires.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

In the face of a widespread belief that domination is the most trustworthy answer to fear, I am fighting for both the freedom of Palestine and the souls of Jews.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

Human beings seek integrity like water seeks its level, grow toward creative and just solutions like plants grow toward sunlight, sometimes by crooked paths, but always reaching.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

How can you own something that changes under your hands, that is so fully alive? Ecology undermines ownership.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

Joy is to mood as stars are to the weather, a constant to steer by, sometimes hidden by storm clouds but high above them, untouched by wind or rain.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

Healing takes place in community, in the telling and the bearing witness, in the naming of trauma and in the grief and rage and defiance that follow.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

Boycotts and divestment are honorable tools of moral persuasion through financial choice. ("BDS and Me")

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

It is part of our task as revolutionary people, people who want deep-rooted, change, to be as whole as it is possible for us to be.

Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

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