By Candace Bond-Theriault — 2021
Candace Bond-Theriault says her work supporting the rights of others like her has taught her how and why taking care of herself is important, too.
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Luvvie Ajayi Jones isn’t afraid to speak her mind or to be the one dissenting voice in a crowd, and neither should you. “Your silence serves no one,” says the writer, activist and self-proclaimed professional troublemaker.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
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An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.