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It’s amazing what the discovery of a corpse can do for one’s spirits.
“When we condemn men--corporate employees and ngo functionaries, police, soldiers--for taking advantage of hungry women and children, we stay within the bounds of conventional morality. When we ask why women and children are made hungry in the first place, why their economies or societies have collapsed, why they are abjectly dependent on food aid or why corporate mercenaries are at large in their countries, we risk departing from the conventional by rejecting the camouflaging power of scale, and holding the larger crimes to be as wicked as the smaller ones.
D.A. Clarke, Resisting the New Sexual World order”
― Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography
D.A. Clarke, Resisting the New Sexual World order”
― Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography
“And it is upon our ability to look honestly upon our differences, to see them as creative rather than divisive, that our future success may lie.”
― I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings
― I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings
“Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.”
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“To be concentrated means to live fully in the present, in the here and now, and not to think of the next thing to be done, while I am doing something right now.”
― The Art of Loving
― The Art of Loving
“Staying home is an ecological imperative, an ethical imperative. It is also a joyful option. It is the practice of oikonomia as the art of living. It is earth democracy in action, cultivating and expanding the freedoms of all beings.”
― Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
― Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom
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