1978
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.
183 min
CLEAR ALL
We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.
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Sometimes, doing the work means looking at yourself and your actions first.
I’d never felt so white in my life—and that was before she saw me completely naked.
Muhammad Ali addresses students about his decision to refuse induction into the United States armed forces.
People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.
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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It is the rise from falling that Brown takes as her subject in Rising Strong.