Lee Maracle quotes

“There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.”
-- Lee Maracle

#Connections Quotes #Earth Quotes #Violence Quotes

“I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine citizenship; it's an imagined thing. Community is an imagined thing. And if your imagination isn't working - and, of course, in oppressed people that's the first thing that goes - you can't imagine anything better. Once you can imagine something different, something better, then you're on your way.”
-- Lee Maracle

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“Where do you begin telling someone their world is not the only one?”
-- Lee Maracle

Source : Lee Maracle (2017). “Ravensong—A Novel”, p.61, Canadian Scholars’ Press

#World Quotes

“On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath.”
-- Lee Maracle

Source : Interview with Brecken Hancock, cwila.com.

#Reality Quotes #Hands Quotes #Covering Quotes

“My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.”
-- Lee Maracle

Source : Interview with Brecken Hancock, cwila.com.

#Art Quotes #Slides Quotes #Public Speaking Quotes

“Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.”

“In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.”

“I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.”

“John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.”

“I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.”

“But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.”

“I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.”

“It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)”

“Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.”

“I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.”