My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.
Audre LordeTags: truth words women silence feminism illness speaking-out cancer differences
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
Audre LordeTags: truth society different misfits discrimination dehumanization profit differences rejection economics-society institutional-oppression institutionalized outsiders social-outcasts surplus survival-of-the-fittest
Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.
Miriam Allen deFordTags: fantasy science-fiction differences
I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and outside.' 'But it's worse for me.' 'I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him.' 'Probably. But it really is worse for me.
Jonathan Safran FoerTags: people loneliness emotions alone personality differences
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know that survival is not an academic skill...For the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. They will never allow us to bring about genuine change.
Audre LordeTags: women society different survival race racism differences poor rejection exclusion impoverished lesbians outcasts povetry social-acceptance survival-skills
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
Mahatma GandhiTags: honesty progress differences healthy
My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day?
Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different values derived from different cultures and wouldn't agree on certain issues, they were good people, incredible people, and I loved and respected them.
Tags: family parents work ethic differences
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
Margaret FullerTags: unity differences
Once upon a time there were two countries, at war with each other. In order to make peace after many years of conflict, they decided to build a bridge across the ocean.
But because they never learned each other’s language properly, they could never agree on the details, so the two halves of the bridge they started to build never met.
To this day the bridge extends far into the ocean from both sides, and simply ends half way, miles in the wrong direction from the meeting point.
And the two countries are still at war.
Tags: difference war communication distance different language tongue connection conflict agreement babylon differences bridge distant communications tower-of-babel borders crossing near oeean
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99)
Wahiduddin KhanTags: character differences
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