The process of liberation brings with it a profound conflict. Having the project be clear is not enough. What is necessary is a spirituality of resistance and of renewed hope to turn ever back to the struggle in the face of the defeats of the oppressed.
Interpretation
Liberation requires not just clarity of purpose but also a resilient spirit to face ongoing struggles.
This quote emphasizes that achieving liberation is a complex process filled with challenges and conflicts. It suggests that simply knowing what to fight for is insufficient; one must also cultivate a spiritual resilience and hope that enables continued resistance against oppression, especially in the aftermath of setbacks.
In practice
This quote can be used during a speech about social justice movements.
There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?
Do you want to be a man of today or a man of tomorrow?
So virtue is a purposive disposition, lying in a mean that is relative to us and determined by a rational principle, and by that which a prudent man would use to determine it. It is a mean between two kinds of vice, one of excess and the other of deficiency.
I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be.
Know that this universe is nothing but a dream bluff of nature to test your consciousness of immortality.
Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality.
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