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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.

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

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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.

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)

Without any form of political representation, children remain in many senses the property of the adults in their lives.

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