"Without community, there is no liberation."

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Source : Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.112, Crossing Press

Audre Lorde

#Change Quotes #Community Quotes #Collaboration Quotes

“A true spiritual teacher does not have anything to teach in the conventional sense of the word, does not have anything to give or add to you, such as new information, beliefs, or rules of conduct. The only function of such a teacher is to help you remove that which separates you from the truth of who you already are and what you already know in the depth of your being”
“We must convince and empower people to adopt the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity as their guiding principle.”

Source : "Governments sound biodiversity alarm in Nairobi". www.cnn.com. May 22, 2000.
“Sweet is the pleasure itself cannot spoil. Is not true leisure one with true toil?”
“The Zen masters have the right idea-no pain no gain: thwack a silly nebbish and he'll remember it far longer and more indelibly than any words you muster at him. Not absolutely everything can or should have to be explained, and particularly not to everybody. But a concussion is a value-judgment anyone gets the point of.”
“Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral”
“If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care?”
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
“God says to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.'”

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