("Is the racism of the women’s movement dominant in your recollection and experience of the women’s movement?") Yes, but my own ability to think abou… - Aurora Levins Morales

The intellectual traditions I come from create theory out of shared lives instead of sending away for it. My thinking grew directly out of listening to my own discomforts, finding out who shared them, who validated them, and in exchanging stories about common experiences, finding patterns, systems, explanations of how and why things happened. This is the central process of consciousness raising, of collective testimonio. ("Certified Organic Intellectual")

I believe that we have it in us to rise to this moment, to end the failed experiment of greed, restore the streams of our creative power, and establish a global culture of reciprocity and generosity as the beating heart of human life on earth.

For human society to be sustainable on earth, it must become inclusive, must take into account the well-being of each one of us.