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I could have walked away then, and chosen not to involve myself any further. But I was disarmed by his honesty, by the simple question that was so difficult to answer. The appearance of simplicity is not the same thing as simplicity itself,
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“Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
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“...it is not really the difference the oppressor fears so much as the similarity. He fears he will discover in himself the same aches, the same longings as those of the people he has shit on... . He fears he will have to change his life once he has seen himself in the bodies of the people he has called different.”
― Esta Puente, Mi Espalda: Voces De Mujeres Tercermundistas En Los Estados Unidos
― Esta Puente, Mi Espalda: Voces De Mujeres Tercermundistas En Los Estados Unidos
“There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.”
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“Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.”
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“I don’t believe rape is inevitable or natural. If I did, I would have no reason to be here. If I did, my political practice would be different than it is. Have you ever wondered why we [women] are not just in armed combat against you? It’s not because there’s a shortage of kitchen knives in this country. It is because we believe in your humanity, against all the evidence.”
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