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Audre Lorde on What to Do When Difference Ruptures Society
“My responsibility is to speak the truth as I feel it, and to attempt to speak it with as much precision and beauty as possible.”
Confucius on Good Government, the 6 Steps to a Harmonious Society, and Self-Discipline as the Key to Democracy
“Things have roots and branches… If the root be in confusion, nothing will be well governed.”
Three Balls of Wool: An Illustrated Celebration of Nonconformity and the Courage to Remake Society’s Givens
A poignant and hope-giving allegory based on the true story of a refugee family.
Denise Levertov on Making Art Amid Chaos and the Artist’s Task to Awaken Society’s Sleepers
“I long for poems of an inner harmony in utter contrast to the chaos in which they exist. Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.”
On Nonconformity: Artist Ben Shahn’s Spirited Defense of Nonconformists as Society’s Engine of Growth and Greatness
“Without the nonconformist, any society of whatever degree of perfection must fall into decay.”
The Spirit of Revolt: The Radical Russian Dissident Prince Peter Kropotkin on How to Reboot a Complacent Society
“Courage, devotion, the spirit of sacrifice, are as contagious as cowardice, submission, and panic.”
Freedom and Creative Vitality in a Market Society: Ursula K. Le Guin on Saving Books from Profiteering and Commodification
“Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”
The Sane Society: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on How to Save Us From Ourselves
“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born, when we die.”
Finding Poetry in Other Lives: James Baldwin on Shakespeare, Language as a Tool of Love, and the Poet’s Responsibility to a Divided Society
“The greatest poet in the English language found his poetry where poetry is found: in the lives of the people. He could have done this only through love — by knowing… that whatever was happening to anyone was happening to him.”
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