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You Can’t Be Neutral
ALWAYS ASK FOR PERMISSION. Before cutting the branch of a tree or removing a flower; ask your spirit, the tree or the plant, so you can withdraw your energy from that place and not feel the cut so strong. If you want medicine, just cut off the leaves, don’t take the whole plant, let it continue to heal others…
— Michelle Price
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I’ve had enough of someone else’s propaganda. I’m for truth no matter who tells it. I’m for justice no matter who it’s for or against it.
— Malcolm X
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I don’t believe it’s possible to be neutral. The world is already moving in certain directions. And to be neutral, to be passive in a situation like that is to collaborate with whatever is going on. And I, as a teacher, do not want to be a collaborator with whatever is happening in the world. I want myself, as a teacher, and I want you as students, to intercede with whatever is happening in the world.”
~ Howard Zinn, You Can’t Be Neutral On A Moving Train
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The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values…but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.
Westerners often forget this fact; non Westerners never do.
