Parker Palmer - Movements begin when oppressed...

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

Parker Palmer

American Educator

Born: 1939

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Truth, Respect, People, Decision, Critical, Worthy, Demands, Inward, Make, Oppressed, Contradict, Begin, Stop, Movements, Keep, Deeply, Inner, External, Consenting

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I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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