“Most of self claimed activists . Are preaching sexism not equality. They want other people to be oppressed, not liberation of those whom they represent.”
“Kindness often comes from a guilt-ridden mind, compassion comes from an aware soul. Kindness is selective, compassion is for all. For example, kind people often take care of dogs and cats but create nuisance for their fellow human beings. They often believe in a world without borders but become a tool in the hands of one country to harm another country.”
“Better die a daring reformer than a cowardly conformer.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America
“You don't need to know people in order to grieve with them. You grieve with them in order to know them.”
Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“No one is special, and everyone is needed.”
Source: Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
“A commitment to disrupting the state's violence when and where we see it takes feminism outside of the realm of words and theories and makes it a living, breathing set of principles. It reminds us that where we can make interventions, we should and that only work that seeks to shake and unsettle the very foundations of the sexist state is feminist work.”
Source: Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power
“Local issues have global ramifications.”
Source: Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
“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.”
Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“When we leave people alone with their pain, their alienation becomes the precondition for radicalization.”
Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love
“Unresolved grief inside a person is tragic; unresolved grief inside a nation is catastrophic.”
Source: See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love