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Good groups help their family, friends, and community members recognize and dissipate anxiety rather than joining them in acting out cruelly against others.

— Sarah Schulman

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Privilege has always been a dulling factor in one’s comprehension of human difference.

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Suicide is often a failure of community, and claiming it as inevitable is a defense against that failure.

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Politics is a consequence of how a person understands their experience.

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All human beings, by virtue of being born, deserve care, recognition, protection, fairness, and opportunity.

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We should not isolate, denounce, and punish people for being human.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.

Wilhelm Reich Philosophy : An Introduction to the Art of Wondering (2005)

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