Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict Quotes

“But the more I see of the damage simplistic thinking can do, the more I admire and cling to John Keats's notion of "negative capability" which he defined as the capacity to dwell in ambiguity or paradox without any "irritable reaching after fact and reason." To allow room for wonder, speculation, uncertainty.”
― Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict

“Outrage... can (and often does) look like arrogance or offensiveness or, certainly, impropriety. But it can be what fuels love of justice and mercy.”
― Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict

“As with every abstraction, we need to tie the word to actualities to keep it from floating into the euphemistic ether where it can do as much harm as carbon.”
― Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict

“Naming is an exercise of power. Renaming involves a transfer of power. Unnaming is a stripping of power from the unnamed and often an abuse of power on the part of those who presume to reduce names to numbers, for instance. It takes courage to name what is being deliberately and defensively obscured. Plain language is not always welcome.”
― Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict