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“Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being sad or struggling or trying to heal. We are all desperate, depraved and sacred. We are all terrible and brillIant. I can list all the things that can make a girl want to escape her own body (re: patriarchy). But I’d rather list all the things that make me want to stay in my body, and adorn it like a home, rub oils into my skin, tell it how sorry I am for trying to leave, for trying to hurt it into submission”

Ifs Want Trying I Can Home Body Girl Hurt Secret Struggle Share Terrible Skins Shame Sacred Sorry Oil Brilliant Lists Heal Desperate Ashamed Patriarchy Submission Depraved Being Sad

Author:Warsan Shire

“Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies, or in the safety of the woods, prayers are being repeated, as they have for thousands of years, and common people with uncommon courage and the whispers of their ancestors in their ears continue their struggles to protect the land and water and trees on which their very existence is based. And like small tributaries joining together to form a mighty river, their force and power grows.”

Source: The Winona LaDuke Reader: A Collection of Essential Writings

“I can assure you, that the gallant hearts that throb beneath its sacred folds, will only be content, when this glorious banner is planted first and foremost in the coming struggle for our independence.”

Firsts Heart I Can Struggle Independence Sacred Glorious Folds Banner Gallant

Author:John Bell Hood

“Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives that we might walk through these gates upright. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Freedom is our real abundance.”

Years Real Might Choices Fighting Sleep Walks Struggle Taken Trouble Paid Praise Sacred Abundance Gates Womb Doorways Our Choices Squad

Author:Marge Piercy

“The underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us.”

World Want Stills Together Values Struggle Modern Diversity Sacred Embrace Ancient Oneself Cruelty Certainty Plenty Justify Flags Slogans Insisting Simplification Sacred Texts

Book:Dreams From My Father

Source: Dreams From My Father

“Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, 'Never! Never!'”

“Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.”

“The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to others as ours are to us.”

Moving Universe Views Struggle Fate Tree Products Highest Ideals Sacred Epoch Tree Of Knowledge

Book:On the Methodology of the Social Sciences

Source: On the Methodology of the Social Sciences

“The struggle is always between the individual and his sacred right to express himself and the power structure that seeks conformity, suppression, and obedience.”

Individual Power Struggle Sacred Structure Obedience Conformity Suppression

Author:William O. Douglas

“If the many and the One be indeed the same Reality, then it is not all modes of worship alone, but equally all modes of work, all modes of struggle, all modes of creation, which are paths of realization. No distinction, henceforth, between sacred and secular. To labour is to pray. To conquer is to renounce. Life is itself religion. To have and to hold is as stern a trust as to quit and to avoid.”

Ifs Reality Life Is Struggle Path Creation Praying Worship Sacred Quitting Realization Conquer Distinction Labour Secular Renounce

Book:Swamiji and His Message

Source: Swamiji and His Message

“Struggles are a part of the sacred sanctification process. There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.”

Way Soul Character Spirit Process Results Struggle Bears Blessing Sacred Prepared Burden Savior Tested Sanctification

Author:L. Lionel Kendrick

“Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.”

Nations Class Struggle Democracy Sacred International Socialist Solidarity Slogans Class Struggle

Author:Karl Liebknecht

“When we reveal ourselves to our partner and find that this brings healing rather than harm, we make an important discovery - that intimate relationship can provide a sanctuary from the world of facades, a sacred space where we can be ourselves, as we are ...This kind of unmasking - speaking our truth, sharing our inner struggles, and revealing our raw edges - is sacred activity, which allows two souls to meet and touch more deeply.”

Source: Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship

“Legionary life is beautiful, not because of riches, partying or the acquisition of luxury, but because of the noble comradeship which binds all Legionaries in a sacred brotherhood of struggle.”

Beautiful Life Is Party Struggle Sacred Riches Noble Luxury Brotherhood Acquisition Life Is Beautiful Comradeship

Author:Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

“If we are to help heal the world, we need to remember that it is a sacred place. Our actions need to be positive statements, reminders that even in the worst times there is a world worth struggling for.”

Ifs World Needs Helping Action Remember Struggle Worst Sacred Heal Statements Reminders Our Actions Being Positive Heal The World Worst Times Sacred Places

Author:Ram Dass