"And for a minute, maybe longer... everything that threatens us, threatens to save us."

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Source : James Galvin (2009). “As is”, p.21, Copper Canyon Press

James Galvin

#Minutes Quotes

“Non-violence confronts systematic injustice with active love, but refuses to retaliate with further violence under any circumstances. In order to halt the vicious cycles of violence, it requires a willing acceptance of suffering and death rather than inflicting suffering or death on anyone else.”

Source : John Dear (2009). “Living Peace: A Spirituality of Contemplation and Action”, p.82, Image
“I don't like to talk about myself that much.”
“I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia Oâ€™Keeffe had done with where she had been. One of the vast Oâ€™Keeffe â€˜Sky Above Cloudsâ€™ canvases floated over the back stairs in the Chicago Art Institute that day, dominating what seemed to be several stories of empty light, and my daughter looked at it once, ran to the landing, and kept on looking. "Who drew it," she whispered after a while. I told her. "I need to talk to her," she said finally.”
“I don't think about delivery. I don't think about mechanics. I just think about throwing hard.”
“The Berlin Defence suited my strategy for the match. I had a defensive strategy - Actually, I had in my pocket some other sharper stuff to fall back on - but first I wanted to try the defensive strategy with Black and it worked so well.”
“So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.”
“When women earn the money for the family, everyone in the family benefits. We also know that when women have an income, everyone wins because women dedicate 90% of the income to health, education, to food security, to the children, to the family, or to the community, so when women have an income, everybody wins.”
“A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.”

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