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I have forgotten my envy of others
Since I found my sacred company.
—Sri Guru Granth Sahib

“Listening does not grant the other side legitimacy. It grants them humanity—and preserves my own.”

Eve Ensler’s alchemy of the apology:
1) willingness to wonder about oneself and why they caused the harm
2) willingness to wonder how the other person felt in their suffering
3) admit what was done in a specific and detailed way
4) do the work of reparation

“Wonder is an act of Will.”

“The founders crafted the U.S. Constitution to consolidate power for white Christian men of an elite class. The rest of us were not counted in “we the people.” The law was designed to colonize and control the rest of is, not set us free.”

“[T]here is no such thing as monsters in this world. There are only human beings who are wounded.”

"There is no nation, no community, and no corn of the earth where women and girls are as safe as men."

"When a nation collectively condones the stripping of civil and human rights of a group, it has delineated who is acceptable to hate."