If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where peo…

Adrienne Rich
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up. ✨ Adrienne Rich (1994). Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up. ✨ Adrienne Rich (1994). Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

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