No human being should ever have to fear for his own life because of political or religious beliefs. We are all in this together, my friends, the rich, the poor, the red, white, black, brown and yellow. We share responsibility for Mother Earth and those who live and breathe upon her ..never forget that.
Interpretation
Everyone deserves to feel safe regardless of their beliefs, and we all share a collective responsibility for the world.
This quote by Leonard Peltier emphasizes the fundamental principle that all individuals should have the right to live without fear due to their political or religious beliefs. It underscores the interconnectedness of humanity, regardless of social, racial, or economic differences, and highlights our shared obligation to care for the planet and its inhabitants, reminding us to cultivate empathy and unity in the face of division and conflict.
In practice
In a speech advocating for human rights, one could start with this quote to emphasize compassion and solidarity.
To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust and hatred. We will have to teach our children-as well as ourselves-to love the diversity of humanity....We can do it. Yes, you and I and all of us together. Now is the time. Now is the only possible time. Let the Great Healing begin.
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
A fertilizer bomb that kills hundreds in Oklahoma. Fuel-laden civil jets that kill 4000 in New York. A sanctions policy that kills one and a half million in Iraq. A trade policy that immiserates continents. You can make a bomb out of anything. The ones on paper hurt the most.
Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.
It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.
No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.
Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.
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