“Without dignity, identity is erased.”

Quoted in Matthew M. Radmanesh, Cracking the Code of Our Physical Universe, p. 269.

Letter to his wife (Congo, My Country)

1960s, How Long, Not Long (1965)
Context: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave Negroes some part of their rightful dignity, but without the vote it was dignity without strength. Once more the method of nonviolent resistance was unsheathed from its scabbard, and once again an entire community was mobilized to confront the adversary. And again the brutality of a dying order shrieks across the land. Yet, Selma, Alabama, became a shining moment in the conscience of man. If the worst in American life lurked in its dark streets, the best of American instincts arose passionately from across the nation to overcome it. There never was a moment in American history more honorable and more inspiring than the pilgrimage of clergymen and laymen of every race and faith pouring into Selma to face danger at the side of its embattled Negroes.

Spying on Strange Men (2013)

Source: Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Y seguiré eliminando las palabras malas que puse en mi todo, aunque mi todo se quede sin palabras.
Voces (1943)

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: Ender's Game