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History is the story we tell ourselves about how the past explains our present, and how the ways in which we tell it are shaped by contemporary needs.

— Aurora Levins Morales Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals (1998)

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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)

There is nothing as sustaining as legacy, as fore-mothers on whose lives we can build.

Foreword to A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee (2004)

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)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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If we don’t care about our past we can’t have very much hope for our future.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!

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