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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.

— 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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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

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There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

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An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

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Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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