The greatest kindness is not telling someone to be strong, but standing beside them whilst they find their strength…
(Unknown)
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No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins. Indeed, Christ’s love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.
Perhaps the fundamental work of witness is the act of faith - an ethical and imaginative leap beyond what we can see. It is a sober reverence of, and a commitment to fight for, the always-unknowable other.
(Sarah Aziza)
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History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable. It happens because people make decisions that are sometimes very impulsive and of the moment, but those moments are cumulative realities.
(Marsha P Johnson)
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Humility is not a matter of self-effacement and self-negation but of being open always to new ways of being responsible.
(Ada María Isasi-Díaz)
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I am not a beginning. I am not an end. I am a link in a chain.
(Keith Haring)
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What positive links within your community can you establish or re-establish this week?
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I think about the love, the capacity for human connection, for generosity of spirit...Everything about our politics is zero-sum. That is not what we were meant for, as human beings. Our inclination is to be connected and to care.
(Ai-jen Poo)
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Today is local election day in many parts of the UK. Here is a helpful guide to the important differences between local and general elections.
Use your vote wisely as there’s some things it will just not affect in any way…
When we vote, we take back our power to choose, to speak up, and to stand with those who support us and each other.
(Attributed to Loung Ung)
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Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are.
(Hasfat Abiola)
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If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.
(W.H. Auden)
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How can you put this into practice this week (and beyond!)
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The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
(Rachel Carson)
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On this St George's Day we remember that George was martyred for putting his love of Christ before his love of Emperor or his military career.
The dragon he slew was the temptation to deny Christ in favour of Empire.
Any time you have an opportunity to make a difference in this world and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth.
(Roberto Clemente)
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