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“Surrounded by darkness yet enfolded in light”
― Alan Brennert, Moloka'i

“The poet Archibald MacLeish, then an Assistant Secretary of State, spoke critically of what he saw in the postwar world: "As things are now going, the peace we will make, the peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace, in brief . . . without moral purpose or human interest. . . .”
― Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present

“I need to be silent for a while, worlds are forming in my heart.”
― Meister Eckhart

“Another black woman, Margaret Wright, said she was not fighting for equality with men if it meant equality in the world of killing, the world of competition. "I don't want to compete on no damned exploitative level. I don't want to exploit nobody. . . . I want the right to be black and me. . . .”
― Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present