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“The injustices unfolding right now feel endless, making it easy to feel overwhelmed. Yet many stem from the same powerful people. The work is both resisting every harm and confronting those few who keep producing them.”

Justice Injustice Activism Resistance Systemic Oppression Community Organizing

Author:Jamie Arpin-Ricci

“Never tell the oppressed they should be grateful for less oppression rather than liberation.”

Justice Gratitude Social Justice Equality Activism Oppression Liberation Equity Advocacy

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“Justice is not achieved by claiming the middle ground between oppressor and oppressed, but by standing where embodied love is likely to cost us something.”

Love Justice Sacrifice Activism Oppression Oppressed Neutrality Oppressor

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“Truth-telling will always be a disruption to those who benefit from the lie.”

Truth Politics Power Honesty Lies Activism Dishonesty Disruption Truth Telling

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“Change doesn’t begin by finding all the answers. It starts with asking the questions power works hardest to silence.”

Truth Change Justice Answers Silence Power Curiosity Activism Resistance

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“Justice names both the wound and the weapon, even when they reside in the same person.”

Truth Justice Responsibility Transformation Social Justice Activism Accountability Reconciliation Restoration Healing Restorative Justice

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“Our individual inaction in the face of injustice actively strengthens and perpetuates its growing systemic hold on society.”

Change Justice Responsibility Injustice Activism Accountability Individualism Inaction Systemic Oppression

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“In the Christian tradition, the function of the “prophetic” (far from being about soothsaying the future) is about speaking truth to power in the face of injustice. The prophets in the Biblical tradition were disruptive voices in the face of systemic failures to protect the most vulnerable. In our context, the prophetic is a disruption of power and privilege in much the same way as a stick in the spokes- an attempt to immediately stop the forward momentum of harmful and oppressive dynamics. The disruption becomes necessary- even critical- when our mutual and social commitments (including grassroots realities, governmental systems, religious communities, etc.) fail to protect the marginalized- or worse, contribute to their oppression.”

Religion Justice Christianity Social Justice Activism Oppression Intersectionality

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“Gradualism veiled as hope is all too often a balm to the privileged and a poison to the oppressed.”

Change Revolution Patience Privilege Activism Oppression Gradualism

Author:Jamie Arpin-Ricci