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December 2024 Newsletter
“Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift..” — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Potawatomi botanist, author, and the director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF)
September, 2024
“The vote is precious. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democratic society, and we must use it.” — John Lewis, late civil rights activist and member of the US House of Representatives for Georgia
June, 2024
“We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.” — Bayard Rustin
March, 2024
“Women supporting women is the most powerful force for change in the world.” — Ntozake Shange
December, 2023
“Moving through…fear, finding out what connects us, reveling in our differences; this is the process that brings us closer, that gives us a world of shared values, of meaningful community.” -bell hooks, Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope, 2003
September, 2023
“Gulf-sized race-based gaps exist with respect to the health, wealth, and well-being of American citizens. They were created in the distant past, but have indisputably been passed down to the present day through the generations. Every moment these gaps persist is a moment in which this great country falls short of actualizing one of its foundational principles — the ‘self-evident’ truth that all of us are created equal.” – Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson
June, 2023
“The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members.” – Coretta Scott King
March, 2023
“If you want to go fast, go alone; but if you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverbs