#quotemas — Public Fediverse posts
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Quote Calendar Day # 20
"The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from acting in what you sincerely and reflectively hold to be the best interests of your community."
- Susan Sontag
#Quotemas #AntiOppressive #AntiFascism #AntiRascist #Resist #IdealJustice #Community #Change #SocialJustice
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Quote Calendar Day # 17
"A freedom which is interested only in denying freedom must be denied. And it is not true that the recognition of the freedom of others limits my own freedom: to be free is not to have the power to do anything you like; it is to be able to surpass the given toward an open future; the existence of others as a freedom defines my situation and is even the condition of my own freedom..."
- Simone de Beauvoir (1947)
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Quote Calendar Day # 17
"Labels do violence to people. You can't treat the label; you have to treat the person behind the label."
- Irvin D. Yalom (1996)
#Quotemas #Counselling #Therapy #AntiOppressive #ExistentialPsychotherapy #Psychology #Compassion #MentalHealth
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Quote Calendar Day # 15
"Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."
- Karl Popper (1945)
#Quotemas #ParadoxOfTolerance #AntiOppressive #AntiRascist #AntiFascism #Tolerance #Philosophy
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Quote Calendar Day # 13
"My father always used to say, 'Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.' Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right."
- Desmond Tutu
#Quotemas #Debate #Rhetoric #TyrannyOfTheMajority #Oppression #AntiOppressive #AntiRascist