For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

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I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that...

I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that...

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in...

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in...

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for...

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for...

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of...

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of...

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as...

No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as...

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that...

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that...

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women,...

I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women,...

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The...

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The...

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and...

I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and...

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the...

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the...

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think...

We judge on the basis of what somebody looks like, skin color, whether we think...

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist...

Why is it that many contemporary male thinkers, especially men of color, repudiate the imperialist...

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move...

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move...

The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able...

The capacity to love is tied to being able to be awake, to being able...

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good...

Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good...

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the...

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the...

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.