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“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It鈥檚 hard to unlearn such hierarchy, to undo such control. It鈥檚 implicit.”
― Cliff James, Of Bodies Changed

tags: authority, conditioning, control, hegemony, hierarchy, patriarchy, power

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#2

“Olympus is still a patriarchy. Zeus heads his royal household as jealously as Jehovah rules his harem of dull, harp-playing angels. Both are templates for order on earth, don鈥檛 you think?”
― Cliff James, Of Bodies Changed

tags: christianity, jehovah, olympus, paganism, patriarchy, power, religion, zeus

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#3

“So, at the turn of the third millennium, you have chosen to base your principles on a collection of contradictory texts 鈥� written by various men years after the death of your man Jesus 鈥� that have been edited and selected out of hundreds of other documents, and bound together into one hotchpotch volume, under the orders of a political primate, Pope Damasus. And, you鈥檙e still content to condemn the living love I feel here and now, because of that dusty accident of bad editing? Why?”
― Cliff James, Of Bodies Changed

tags: bible, christianity, editing, principles, religious-text

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#4

“Have you ever wondered why we bury and cremate our dead? Nothing to do with hygiene, it鈥檚 just so we don鈥檛 have to see the reality of death. You know, the Zoroastrians used to leave their dead in open places for the birds to eat. Now that鈥檚 a far more honest way to go, don鈥檛 you agree? Everyone can see what happens. It makes us live our lives more potently. That鈥檚 how I want to go, at my end: openly. Not ashamed of death, but embracing it.”
― Cliff James, Of Bodies Changed

tags: burial, cremation, death, death-and-dying, letting-go, suicide

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#5

“I will simply die, as you will simply die, when our hearts stop beating. And instead of the fires of Hell or the clouds of Heaven, there will be a chorus of hungry worms or fish, depending on how we go. Isn鈥檛 that what really terrifies you most of all, why you force yourself against all reason to believe in such tales? It鈥檚 because you鈥檙e afraid of the nothingness at the end. You鈥檙e ashamed of it.”
― Cliff James, Of Bodies Changed

tags: afraid-to-die, death, death-and-dying, fear, heaven-and-hell

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#6

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner

tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling

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#7

“Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”
― Anonymous Greek Proverb

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#8

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

tags: candle, darkness, illumination, misattributed

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#9

“Being antiracist is not simply political correctness, it is proven science.”
― Robert Wald Sussman, The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea

tags: antiracism, racism, science

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#10

“I never should have made it through twelve years of schooling before entering a university, without ever hearing the important news that most anthropologists reject the concept of biological races.”
― Robert Wald Sussman, The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea

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#11

“Biologically valid races are not real, but cultural racism is, and we must understand how this cultural reality affects our everyday interactions.”
― Robert Wald Sussman, The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea

tags: culture, race

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#12

“Displaced workers, along with others who fear for their livelihood, are fertile ground in which to sow anti-immigrant sentiment, since angry and frustrated people often seek some target on which to blame their problems. The right wing has organized and manipulated such anger and resentment, turned it away from corporations, and directed it against the government, decrying high taxes and the inability of the state to solve problems such as social deterioration, homelessness, crime, and violence. In addition to the target of 鈥渇ailed liberal policies,鈥� immigrants make a convenient and tangible target for people鈥檚 anger. Racial prejudice is often an encoded part of the message鈥ight-wing populist themes are particularly effective at attracting working people disenchanted with the system.”
― Robert Wald Sussman, The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea

tags: race, right-wing

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#13

“The Prime Minister Theresa May says she knows what you are better than you do. She says that a citizen of the world is a citizen of nowhere - although most scientists and philosophers would argue, on the contrary, that the world is quite definitely somewhere. The fragile contours of our small blue planet are quite easily identifiable to any passing asteroid.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: citizens-of-the-world, theresa-may

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#14

“Them-and-us nationalism has been done before. We have seen where that leads: it does not end well. Nationality is as vaporous and as insubstantial as a collective dream, no more spiritual than a National Insurance number and no less randomly bestowed: determined by chance, conditioned by prejudice. We have moved beyond the apeman's horizon. We have. Surely we have.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: nationalism, nationalism-quotes, nationality, patriotism, prejudice

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#15

“Breathe. Steel yourself, for here ends gravity and there are now no anchors to keep you grounded. Beware, the apeman is not prepared for such leaps of imagination. Life is a kite. Remember to breathe.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: imagination, kite, kites, life, life-as-a-kite

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#16

“Openly supporting refugees today is like coming out as gay in the 1980s - kindness is in short supply.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: gay, kindness, prejudice, refugee, refugees, xenophobia

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#17

“When I am asked why I have left England, I say that I am in "Brexile". It goes down well.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: brexile, brexit, england, exile, exile-and-emigration

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#18

“The ripples from a stone thrown in ignorance are gathering pace.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: brexile, brexit, ignorance, stones

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#19

“More clowns from the darkness: Donald Trump becomes president.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: clown-quotes, clowns, darkness, donald-trump

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#20

“Jerusalem 鈥� Urusalim to the Canaanites 鈥� City of Shalem, god of the Evening Star. In Hebrew, Yerushalayim 鈥� the City of Peace. In Arabic, al-Quds 鈥� simply The Holy.聽 So many names, so much unresolved. Jerusalem has serious issues.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: israel, jerusalem

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#21

“It is near time to speak of Peter 鈥� not the saint, but the Bishop of Lewes. 聽Gethsemane was significant to Peter. He made it significant to others.聽 There is a house in the South Downs of England, between Berwick and Wilmington, a bishop鈥檚 house 鈥� a former bishop 鈥� where the Garden of Gethsemane was made manifest.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: abuse, bishop, bishop-peter-ball, church-abuse, gethsemane, gloucester, lewes, peter-ball

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#22

“No other way is possible but agony, but suffering, says god, says Peter's god, says Peter.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: agony, bishop, bishop-peter-ball, gloucester, god, lewes, peter-ball, suffering

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#23

“England sinks, the waters rise, but exile is not all about weeping by the rivers. There are also insights in the wilderness.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: england, exile, exiled, wilderness, wilderness-quotes

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#24

“Look, see: the universe does nothing. Victim or monster, there is no one to help. 聽God is dead. We should have tried to do our best without him.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: abuse-survivors, atheism, atheist, god, god-is-dead, monster, universe, universe-quotes, victim, victims

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#25

“How can we speak to each other like equals when one of us is holding a gun?”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: equal-rights, equality, gun, guns, israel, palestine-israeli-conflict

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#26

“Power does not simply stop at the locking of a door, even a cell door.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: abuse, bishop, bishop-peter-ball, church-abuse, peter-ball, power, prison

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#27

“But until we all realise that power 鈥� be it that of gods, of kings or of masters 鈥� only exists in our minds, dear Venerable, do not tell me to dispense with the concept of freedom.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: buddhism, freedom, gods, kings, masters, mind, power

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#28

“The temples of empires come tumbling down, the names of the mighty forgotten. Here is a parable: power never lasts.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: empire, empires, power, power-quotes

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#29

“Religion does have a tendency to cling to power. That is the nature of the beast. It lends spiritual credibility to barbaric acts, is given protection and sustenance in return.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: barbarism, power, religion, religious-quotes

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#30

“Actions can be evil: the inversion of truth, power inflicted on the powerless, violence on the full spectrum of psychological to physical, subtle to unsubtle: all these acts, in the right context, can be defined as evil.”
― Cliff James, Life As A Kite

tags: evil, evil-quotes-quotes, power, powerless, violence

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