No, it is not easy to grasp that the only way to suffer less is to love more, especially in politics. At the risk of seeming weaker. Yes, at the risk of seeming weaker I shall not build an atomic bomb, I shall not give my enemy a whack in the eye to show that I am stronger, I shall not make war, I shall not squash my tomatoes and apples with a tractor to keep the price up, I shall not destroy forests to build factories, I shall not poison the sea. If love is the rule of my politics and the thrust of my action, yes, I really shall suffer less and I shall cause less suffering in others. — Carlo Carretto
Daily Manna
If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. . . . But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. — Lilla Watson, a Brisbane, Australia-based Aboriginal educator and activist