Inga Muscio Quotes

Inga Muscio — American Activist born on December 30, 1966,

Inga Muscio, is an American feminist, anti-racist writer and public speaker... (wikipedia)

Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.

Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

Words outlive people, institutions, civilizations. Words spur images, associations, memories, inspirations and synapse pulsations. Words send off physical resonations of thought into the nethersphere. Words hurt, soothe, inspire, demean, demand, incite, pacify, teach, romance, pervert, unite, divide. Words be powerful.

Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet.

Inga Muscio Quotes

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