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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.

— 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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