Quote Calendar Day # 11

"Sometimes the smallest, softest voice carries the grand biggest solutions"

- Michael John Burkett, aka "Fat Mike" (2003)

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Quote Calendar Day # 10

"The reigning economic system is a vicious circle of isolation. Its technologies are based on isolation, and they contribute to that same isolation. From automobiles to television, the goods that the spectacular system chooses to produce also serve it as weapons for constantly reinforcing the conditions that engender “lonely crowds."

- Guy Debord (1967)

#Philosophy #SocialIsolation #MentalHealth #Capitalism #24DaysOfQuotes #Lonliness #Economics #Sociology

Quote Calendar Day # 9

"What is most important is to cease legislating for all lives what is liveable only for some, and similarly, to refrain from proscribing for all lives what is unlivable for some."

- Judith Butler (2004)

I found too many wonderful quotes from the incredible Judith Butler so I'm going to share a few. 1/-

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Quote Calendar Day # 8

"Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military. Not the one facing us across the frontier of the battle lines, which is not so much our enemy as our brothers' enemy, but the one that calls itself our protector and makes us its slaves..." 1/2

- Simone Weil

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Quote Calendar Day # 7

"Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today."

-Malcolm X. (1965)

#24DaysOfQuotes #Black #Change #Equality #AntiOppressive #AntiRascist #Compassion #Privilege

Quote Calendar Day # 6

"It becomes easier for me to accept myself as a decidedly imperfect person, who by no means functions at all times in the way in which I would like to function. This must seem to some like a very strange direction in which to move. It seems to me to have value because the curious paradox is that when I accept myself as I am, then I change."

- Carl R Rogers (1961)

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Quote Calendar Day # 5

"Why should we cherish “objectivity”, as if ideas were innocent, as if they don’t serve one interest or another? Surely, we want to be objective if that means telling the truth as we see it, not concealing information that may be embarrassing to our point of view. But we don’t want to be objective if it means pretending that ideas don’t play a part in the social struggles of our time, that we don’t take sides in those struggles."

- Howard Zinn (1990)

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Quote Calendar Day # 4

"We are what we see ourselves as, whether what we see exists or not. We are what people see us as, whether what they see exists or not. What people see in themselves and others has meaning and manifests itself in ideas and actions and policies, even if what they are seeing is an illusion."

- Ibram X. Kendi (2019)

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Quote Calendar Day # 3

“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”

- Arundhati Roy (2004)

*Note from MJ - I will no longer be referring to this series of posts as Advent. It was brought up by another user that Advent is a specific religious observance for Christians and I have no wish to appropriate the practice. I apologise if my actions caused anyone harm.*

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