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It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That’s the beginning of social protest.
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In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.
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Hopefully, we can learn from the 60s that we cannot afford to do our enemies work by destroying each other.
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A choice of pains. That’s what living was all about.
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Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
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There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
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If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
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To search for power within myself means I must be willing to move through being afraid to whatever lies beyond.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
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Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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