Linda

“In our era, it is not enough to be tolerant. You tolerate mosquitoes in the summer, a rattle in an engine, the gray slush that collects at the crosswalk in winter. You tolerate what you would rather not have to deal with and wish would go away. It is no honor to be tolerated. Every spiritual tradition says love your neighbor as yourself, not tolerate them.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“If longing is madness, then none of us are sane.”
― Nina Varela, Crier's War

“The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

“There are no throwaway people. If you care about the most marginalised people in society, why not start from thinking about what can be given to them?”
― Juno Mac & Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights