The conflict arises when we personally encounter the damage that racism causes and our own conscience rebels against us and asks us to do the opposite—stand up against racism.
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There Is A Light, Don’t Let It Go Out
“Religion” is often blamed as the reason why the Israel-Palestine conflict continues. But if peace were the thing that Muslims and Jews were religious about, the conflict would be over, and peace is what we would have.
Dripping with Discrimination | A Personal Journey of Unboxing
My perceptions had been trapped inside a little box and reality was so much more grand and beautiful. And full of life.
Where Do the Dead Go? Grief by Scholastique Mukasonga
“You won’t find your dead in the graves or the bones or the latrine. That’s not where they’re waiting for you. They’re inside you. They survive only in you, and you survive only through them. But from now on you’ll find all your strength in them—there’s no other choice, and no one can take that strength away from you. With that strength, you can do things you might not even imagine today.”
Are We all Inherently Racists? Thoughts on the US and the Globe
Does it not feel great, even euphoric, to be better at something than another person? I think it does. But only superficially. And, it is short-lived. It attracts resistance, and at some point violence. It retards cooperation, relationships, communities, nations.