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And the chickens had black cockscombs, not red ones, because of the radiation. And you couldn’t make cheese. We lived a month without cheese and cottage cheese. The milk didn’t go sour—it curdled into powder, white powder. Because of the radiation.

Courage reflects your spirit. It reflects something deep within all of us who would rather defy an authority then go along with something that is morally wrong. Raw courage makes us stand up and speak out in the face of fear...There may be a time when history calls upon you. There may be an injustice that has hurt your friends or fellow citizens. How will you respond? Will you support those who are oppressed?

On Activism:
You have the right to protest for what is right. You know what I say: When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to say something, you have to do something. You have to push, and pull, and be prepared to make a little noise. When you see something that is not the way it should be, don't be afraid. Speak up, speak out, be courageous.

Good trouble is about dramatizing something that needs changing and correcting. My arrests help to raise awareness for the wrongs happening around the world.

What is something that needs fixing in our country? What doesn't sit right in your hearts that moves you to protest in a nonviolent way? What can you do to get into good trouble? There is a light inside of you that will turn on when you get into good trouble.

Oh, I don’t even want to remember it. It’s scary. They chased us out, the soldiers chased us. The big military machines rolled in. The all-terrain ones. One old man—he was already on the ground. Dying. Where was he going to go? ‘I’ll just get up,’ he was crying, ‘and walk to the cemetery. I’ll do it myself.’

They had black spots all over their bodies. These spots would appear, then disappear. About the size of a five-kopek coin...Can you picture seven little girls shaved bald in one room? There were seven of them in the hospital room...I want to bear witness: my daughter died from Chernobyl. And they want us to forget about it. –Nikolai Fomich Kalugin

When the train pulled into Moscow, Bocharov [3rd shift chief engineer in charge of assembling the giant sarcophagus over reactor 4] thought they would be greeted at the station like conquering heroes, but he saw only his wife, a friend, and a soldier.
"Kandahar?" the soldier asked.
"Chernobyl," Bocharov said.
The soldier put an arm around his shoulder. "Brother, you had a tougher job."

What do you think you are doing? If you want to fight, fight against foul weather, disease, and all the other ills that hurt our animals again and again. When you hurt other islanders, you hurt yourselves. When you hate other animals, you injure yourselves. You twist your hearts and minds. Slowly, you kill yourselves. Put down your weapons and look at each other. You are all animals of this island.

Death is the fairest thing in the world. No one’s ever gotten out of it. The earth takes everyone—the kind, the cruel, the sinners. Aside from that, there’s no fairness on earth. I worked hard and honestly my whole life. But I didn’t get any fairness.

Every day people thank me for my courage. I want to tell them this is not courage, but a deeper and determination to change our patriarchal, sexist society.

[Chernobyl plant director] Brukhanov knew little about nuclear power...at the Ministry of Energy in Moscow, knowledge and experience were regarded as less important qualifications for top management than loyalty.

–Well now, doesn't that sound familiar?!

I wasn't scared of being seen now, of people knowing. Shame has to change sides. The words I'd first heard over a decade ago, a slogan supporting women who had survived rape and domestic violence, came into my head like a refrain...they [rapists] should be the ones to hold their heads in shame, not me.

Professional experience had taught her about the loneliness that lay ahead for me, and the isolation that rape victims suffer.

I walked for hours through the forest and across the dunes, to the sound of the surf and the tides. It is only by moving, by scouring myself with the elements, that I am able to confront my grief.

How did I persist in seeing kindness where there was nothing but manipulation?

It was close 104 here, a furious heat that seemed to demand an apology.

Please enjoy your health when you have it because once your body betrays you, no comforts in the world will make up for your loss.

Mossberry uses deceitful and dishonest ways to turn vulnerable animals to himself. He doesn't want what's best for them. He wants to be obeyed and adored. Sadly, there will also be those who follow someone like Mossberry. And believe me, it never ends well.
Look out for the Mossberrys.

Digo
que el estereotipo es la ficción del prejuicio
la excusa barata de un odio costoso
que cobra vidas y deja pérdidas insalvables.

Hoy es el dia mas joven de mi vida
y voy a hacerme un homenaje.

The antidote to all the fear and division...is community connection.

To have the future we want, we need to create more of what we need. And in order to know what we need, we have to show up in our communities. We need to listen to our neighbors..The privilege of what we do is that we get to go into these communities and see neighbors selflessly helping neighbors, people working to better the lives of strangers. No one asks who you voted for before they get to work solving problems

Chapter Five: Date Yourself, Make It Weird

–Excellent advice!

I decided to live life for me. I would do the things I dreamt of doing, I would laugh with my whole being, I would find joy in the things worth seeing, I would spend moments in interesting places and find spaces filled with light, and I would teach my heart it's always best to be a little warmer.

I know sometimes it feels like
you are made of glass,
like the smallest change
or challenge can feel crushing,
all-consuming, unimaginable.

But glass is also made from lightning,
and lightning brightens the entire sky.

Just like you.

The world is meant
for building each other
into castles, for holding
each other in times of
duress and struggle.

We are not meant to
burn each other to the
ground.

If we cannot support
each other in the times
we need to come together,
we will be left in ashes.

Although she was thankful that Ghislaine Maxwell, whom she regarded as ‘more evil than Epstein’, was convicted, Giuffre had never felt closure: ‘It’s definitely not over. There are so many more people involved with this. It doesn’t stop with Maxwell.’

"I was one of many girls Prince Andrew had sex with in Jeffrey Epstein’s house. I was paid off to keep quiet years ago by Epstein...to this day I can’t believe how Prince Andrew has never been investigated or held accountable...One day the entire truth will come out...Now is not the time because Andrew seems to be above the law. I promise, the final chapter of this sad saga is far from being written."

It is clear how Epstein played Andrew. The prince was a useful idiot who gave him respectability and access to political leaders and business opportunities. What drew Andrew to Epstein? An opportunity to join the super rich and a lifestyle to which the duke had long aspired, a supply of available women, a chance to make money himself and someone who would bankroll his life as well as settle his ex-wife’s debts.

Ian Halperin in the course of researching his book & documentary on Jeffrey Epstein talked to many people in Andrew’s circle and confirmed Epstein ‘sold Prince Andrew’s most intimate secrets to several notorious foreign intelligence agencies, including Israel’s Mossad, the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Mukhabarat el-Jamahiriya which was the national intelligence service of Libya under the rule of Muammar Gaddafi’.