"To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination."

-- Bell Hooks

#Community Quotes #Way Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“Conservatism is not about leaving people behind. Conservatism is about empowering people to catch up, to give them the tools at their disposable that make it possible for them to access all the hope, all the promise, all the opportunity that America offers. And our programs to help them should reflect that.”
“I happen to find motherhood a very natural state, but I know a lot of other people don't.”

Source : "The interview: Natascha McElhone". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2009.
“Silence - not dissent - is the one answer that leaders should refuse to accept.”
“I think it's not just about how you perform on the field, but how you hold yourself off it.”
“When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.”
“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”

Source : Mary Wortley Montagu (2015). “Letters”, p.554, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
“I really gave up being passionate about politics 10, 15, 20 years ago, because I think finally that there were forces in the country that are larger than politics itself. And so I find it a fascinating game, this wonderful stuff goes on in terms of watching the game. But If you get to down it, look, I`m going to root for someone, I`ll root at a football game, not for politicians.”
“That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.”

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