"Israel is guilty of apartheid and persecution of the Palestinian people, both inside Israel and also in the Occupied Territories."
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"Even as I hold you, I am letting you go."
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"It is chilling to think that the same people who persecuted the wise women and men of Europe, its midwives and healers, then crossed the oceans to Africa and the Americas and tortured and enslaved, raped, impoverished, and eradicated the peaceful, Christ-like people they found. And that the blueprint from which they worked, and still work, was the Bible."
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"the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat."
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"I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart."
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"It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it."
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"The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate."
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"And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read."
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"The most important question in the world is, 'Why is the child crying?'"
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"Healing begins where the wound was made."
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"If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations."
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"For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged."
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"I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love."
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"We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it."
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"Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities."
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"What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears."
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"Horses make a landscape look beautiful."
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"If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it."
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"You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area."
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"I am not interested in being a role model, or in fulfilling the expectations of others. I know I am of most use to others and to myself by being this unique self: Nature, I have noticed, is not particularly devoted to copies, and human beings needn't be either."
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