A fully just society in which human potential is never despised or thrown away is possible only if that invitation to a restoration of integrity and … - 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")

We are turning the world out of prehistory into that morning that will be ours, when everyone on earth will wake up unafraid. (p 29)

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