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“A man ain’t nothing but a man,” said Baby Suggs. “But a son? Well now, that’s somebody.”
“I started to question what was being taught—I didn’t get much guidance in medical school or residency on what to do when your patient can’t pay for health insurance or when she has lost childcare for the third time in two months and is being fired from her job. Instead, I was taught to prescribe medications or provide psychotherapy for issues that were clearly systemic. While there is certainly a great need for both of these medical interventions, the lack of attention to the inhumanity of our social policies left me feeling powerless—just like my patients.”
― Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness
― Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness
“Even in a palace hall, Law is the lord of all.”
― The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days
― The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days
“Having opened up a way for the imprisoned souls, the chief celebrant had succeeded by means of spells and incantations in breaking open the gates of hell. He had shone his light (a little hand mirror) for the souls in darkness. He had confronted Yama, the Judge of the Dead. He had seized the demon torturers who resisted his progress. He had invoked Ksitigarbha, the Saviour King, to aid him. He had raised up a golden bridge, and now, by means of a litle flag which he held aloft in one hand, was conducting over it those souls from the very deepest pit of hell who still remined undelivered.”
― The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days
― The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days
“Having made an utter failure of my life, I found myself one day in the midst of my poverty and wretchedness, thinking about the female companions of my youth. As I went over them one by one, examining them and comparing them in my mind's eye, it suddenly came over me that those slips of girls - which is all they were then - were in every way, both morally and intellectually, superior to the 'grave and mustachioed signior' I am now supposed to have become.”
― The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days
― The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Vol. 1: The Golden Days
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”
― On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
― On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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