“Wonder is where love begins, but the failure to wonder is the beginning of violence. Once people stop wondering about others, once they no longer see others as a part of them, they disable their instinct for empathy. And once they lose empathy, they can do anything to them, or allow anything to be done to them. Entire institutions built to preserve the interests of one group of people over another depend on this failure of imagination. Violence comes in the form of policies by the state and sometimes by bloodshed in the streets. More often, it comes in forms that are hard to see, unless we find a way to make them visible through our stories.” LoveWonderViolenceEmpathyOthers Book:See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“No one should be asked to feel empathy or compassion for their oppressors. I have learned that we do not need to feel anything for our opponents at all in order to practice love. Love is labor that returns us to wonder—it is seeing another person's humanity, even if they deny their own. We just have to choose to wonder about them.” WonderActivismEmotional Labor Book:See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love