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“ We like who we become in response to injustice: it makes it easy to choose a side. Our capacity to care, to get angry, is called forth like some muscle we weren't entirely aware we had. ”

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A cry for attention is positioned as a crime, as if attention were inherently a selfish thing to want. But isn’t wanting attention one of the most fundamental traits of being human—and isn’t granting it one of the most important gifts we can ever give?

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Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.

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We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.

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Freedom from one man is just another one.

~ Leslie Jamison