By Stephanie Van Hook — 2019
Yoga teacher and activist Michelle C. Johnson talks to Nonviolence Radio about her book “Skill In Action.”
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CLEAR ALL
Major speeches and letters from the life and career of South Africa’s first black president, organized by date, topic and readers’ favorites.
Misty Copeland is speaking out about racial injustice and inequality in ballet.
...our society educates people in a way that disconnects them from life. I really do think we’ve been educated to be as obedient as dogs, and I don’t see that as serving life. —Marshall Rosenberg
It’s so ironic. A country that was established by white immigrants and refugees continues, year after year, to debate whether refugees and immigrants from other countries should be allowed to cross onto our sacred soil. - Chelsey Luger
Several queer Black Buddhist authors have showed me how spiritual practice can be a liberating force in the face of challenges as huge as racism, sexism and queerphobia.
“No one who has ever touched liberation could possibly want anything other than liberation for everyone,” says Rev. angel Kyodo williams. She shares why we must each fully commit to our own path to liberation, for the benefit of all.
“The greatest social movements in history were rooted in the ethic of love,” says Valarie Kaur.
A conversation with historian Peniel Joseph.
Pope Francis has declared a global “climate emergency,” warning of the dangers of global heating and that a failure to act urgently to reduce greenhouse gases would be “a brutal act of injustice toward the poor and future generations.”
Guardian editorial--No other spiritual leader is speaking out so clearly for the poor and for the environment in the developing world."