“Insofar as the genocide embodied in residential schooling arises as an integral aspect of colonialism, then colonialism must be seen as constituting that source. To be in any way an apologist for colonialism is to be an active proponent of genocide.” WaySourceAspectActiveAriseGenocideColonialismSchooling Author:Ward Churchill
“...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent.... They must harass, debate, petition, boycott, sing hymns, pray on steps--and shoot from their windows when the racists come cruising through their communities.... The acceptance of our condition is the only form of extremism which discredits us before our children [ellipses in source].” MeanChildrenFormCommunityStepsStruggleConditionsAcceptanceSourcePrayingConcernWindowOur ChildrenActiveDebateViolentCivil RightsRacistIllegalPassiveExtremismCivil Rights MovementHymnsPetitionsDiscreditBoycottNon Violent Author:Lorraine Hansberry
“Now the things done may not be evil or improper; they in fact may be good and godly (such as reading the Bible, praying, worshiping, preaching); but if they are not undertaken in a spirit of complete reliance upon the Holy Spirit, then the flesh is the source of all. The old creation is willing to do anything-even to submit to God - if only it is permitted to live and to be active.” IfsMayDoneFactsSpiritEvilReadingCreationWillingSourcePrayingHolyActiveBe GoodFleshHoly SpiritSubmitPreachingGodlyRelianceThings DoneReading The Bible Book:Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons Source: Journeying Towards the Spiritual: A Digest of the Spiritual Man in 42 Lessons
“You must find a more empowering source of comfort, connection, and control than food. Perhaps a creative outlet, helping others, becoming active in an organization, whatever.” HelpingCreativeSourceBecomingComfortConnectionsOrganizationActiveHelping OthersEmpoweringOutletsCreative Outlets Author:Tony Robbins
“Merely to resist evil with evil by hating those who hate us and seeking to destroy them, is actually no resistance at all. It is active and purposeful collaboration in evil that brings the Christian into direct and intimate contact with the same source of evil and hatred which inspires the acts of his enemy. It leads in practice to a denial of Christ and to the service of hatred rather than love.” WisdomChristianHateEvilChristEnemyPracticeInspireSourceDirectHatredSeekingActiveResistanceContactDenialIntimateCollaborationLead In Author:Thomas Merton