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“The tree of life knows that, whatever happens, the warm music spinning around it will never stop. However much death may come, however much blood may flow, the music will dance men and women as long as the air breaths them and the land plows and loves them.”
― Century of the Wind
― Century of the Wind
“Whereas the violence of the oppressors prevents the oppressed from being fully human, the response of the latter to this violence is grounded in the desire to pursue the right to be human. As the oppressors dehumanize others and violate their rights, they themselves also become dehumanized. As the oppressed, fighting to be human, take away the oppressors' power to dominate and suppress, they restore to the oppressors the humanity they had lost in the exercise of oppression.”
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
― Pedagogy of the Oppressed
“Meanwhile, I was making notes about what had seemed to work in the context of a showdown. I came up with this list: absence of fear; affirmation of self-worth; resolute holding to one's entitlement to the power one was exercising; manifest support; calls to other, not manifest support, such as sympathetic media, legal counsel, and kindred student organizations; and the stunning energy of rage.”
― Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
― Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
“For fifty years our politicians have worked to create the illusion that there is such a thing as a uniform Italy. The regions were supposed to disappear into the nation, dialects into literary languages. Sicily is the region that has most actively resisted the breaking down of history and freedom. On numerous occasions Sicily has shown itself to be more than a region, and to have a national character of its own.”
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“Inside this volatile mix, a woman who had volunteered to help us, as needed, fell apart. She was, she is, an attorney... Rather than speak to the police, she started to tremble and cry. She said to me, "I can't. I can't do this. I'm just a single mother with three children." And so on. And it was awful to watch her fear making her powerless. It was awful. It was very depressing. And I thanked her for showing up, anyway. And I watched her retreat: Not blessed by a visible, known, tested, and building community on which she could rely, she felt, and therefore, she was isolated. She could not do herself, or anyone else, any good.
I think this has something to do with rape, which, I think has a lot to do with domination and the dominator's determination to deprive you of your rights.”
― Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
I think this has something to do with rape, which, I think has a lot to do with domination and the dominator's determination to deprive you of your rights.”
― Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
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