Powerful Words from One More Eloquent Than Me
From "An Open Letter to Barack Obama from Alice Walker"
"...I would further advise you not to take on other people's enemies. Most damage that others do to us is out of fear, humiliation and pain.Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion. We must learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise."
What a powerful idea! Our enemies are truly only ourselves in disguise. And so how then can we hate them, if they are in fact our own selves?
And in closing, she says "We are the ones we have been waiting for."
Read the full letter
"...I would further advise you not to take on other people's enemies. Most damage that others do to us is out of fear, humiliation and pain.Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion. We must learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise."
What a powerful idea! Our enemies are truly only ourselves in disguise. And so how then can we hate them, if they are in fact our own selves?
And in closing, she says "We are the ones we have been waiting for."
Read the full letter
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