

“Un amor auténtico debería de asumir la contingencia del otro, es decir, sus carencias, sus límites y su gratuidad originaria; así no pretendería ser una salvación sino una relación entre seres humanos.”
― The Second Sex
― The Second Sex

“For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever found them the meanest and basest, the most cruel and cowardly, of all others.”
― Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
― Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“I was born here in the Congo. When my parents took me as a child back to Greece, it was more primitive than here. I used to look forward to coming back to the Congo because it was more advanced than Greece. Can you imagine that?”
― Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
― Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart

“Some people are born to survive. No matter what comes their way, no matter how much pain is dealt them, they live." ~Mercy~”
― Mercy
― Mercy
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