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The Freedom Seeker

by Ruchira Gupta

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Apr 13, 2026 02:54AM

Teresa’s Quotes

“I want to resemble a sort of liquid light which stretches beyond visibility or invisibility. Tonight I wish to have the valor and daring to belong to the moon”
― Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary

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“Yes,” he said, “intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike.”
― Octavia E. Butler, Dawn

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“Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

tags: class-struggle, race, society

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“When people ask me how I got into activism, I often say, “The first person you are ever an activist for is yourself.” If I wasn’t gonna fight for me, who else was?”
― George M. Johnson, All Boys Aren’t Blue

tags: activism, inspirational

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“It’s come to shape the way I think about every country, every community: Whose nonexistence is necessary to the self-conception of this place, and how uncontrollable is the rage whenever that nonexistence is violated?”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

tags: being-overlooked, citizens, communities, countries, existence, nonexistence, rage, rights

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