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Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

by Eli Saslow (Goodreads Author)

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"Chapter 7-So far, I find this to be a hard book to listen to and at the same time, a really important one. One can gain insight on many sides throughout this story. I am looking forward to seeing the transformation out of White nationalism completed. Not there yet." — Mar 28, 2021 01:06PM

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“Being yourself sounds like a saccharine prescription for how to make it in an aggressive culture. But it’s not as sweet as it sounds. It means not acting in a way that’s false just to fit in. It’s expressing your talents, values, and opinions in your style, defending your rights, and never sacrificing your self-respect. That is power.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

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“Because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

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“If I ever see myself as separate or superior, if I try to lift myself up by pulling down others, if I believe people are on a journey I have completed, doing personal work I have mastered, attempting tasks I've accomplished--if I have any feeling that I am above them instead of trying to rise with them, then I have isolated myself from them.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

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“The most radical approach to resistance is acceptance--and acceptance does not mean accepting the world as it is. It means accepting our pain as it is. If we refuse to accept our pain, then we're just trying to make ourselves feel better--and when our hidden motive is to make ourselves to feel better, there is no limit to the damage we can do in the name of justice.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

tags: acceptance, justice

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“An abusive culture, to me, is any culture that needs to single out and exclude a group. It’s always a less productive culture because the organization’s energy is diverted from lifting people up to keeping people down. It’s like an autoimmune disease where the body sees its own organs as threats and begins attacking them. One of the most common signs of an abusive culture is the false hierarchy that puts women below men.”
― Melinda Gates, The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World

tags: abuse, culture, hierarchy, women

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