Maureen Duffy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We all have to rise in the end, not just one or two who were smart enough, had will enough for their own salvation, but all the halt, the maimed and the blind of us which is most of us.
-- Maureen Duffy

#Smart #Two #Blind
All reduction of people to objects, all imposition of labels and patterns to which they must conform, all segregation can lead only to destruction.
-- Maureen Duffy

#People #Labels #Patterns
I think basically I just think I want everyone and don't really want anybody.
-- Maureen Duffy

#Thinking #Want
We develop all our sciences, archeology, cosmology, psychology, we tabulate and classify and cling to our sacred definitions, our divisions, without any attempt to synthesis, without the humility to see that these are only parts of a total knowledge. ... But somehow we ought to be able to keep the idea of the totality of experience and knowledge at the back of our minds even though the front's busy from morning til night with the life cycle of the liver fluke.
-- Maureen Duffy

#Morning #Knowledge #Humility
Society isn't a simple organism with one nucleus and a fringe of little feet, it's an infinitely complex living structure and if you try to suppress any part of it by that much, and perhaps more, you diminish, you mutilate the whole.
-- Maureen Duffy

#Simple #Feet #Trying
In all dying our ages are the same.
-- Maureen Duffy

#Dying #Age
all deaths are one's own.
-- Maureen Duffy
How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?
-- Maureen Duffy

#Men #White #Black
Love is the only effective counter to death.
-- Maureen Duffy

#Happiness #Love Is
The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.
-- Maureen Duffy

#Love #Pain #Alive

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