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Unnecessarily specialized language is used to humiliate those who are not supposed to feel entitled. It sells the illusion that only those who can wield it can think. ("Certified Organic Intellectual")

— 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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