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Torturers are made, not born. We know enough about the repetitive cycles of violence, enough about the training of secret police and death squads, special military units and spies to know that the way you learn to torture is by being tortured.

— 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.

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

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

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

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

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