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“At the same time, America is roiling and reverberating with a long-overdue racial reckoning. This reckoning began soon after the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, and it continues to unfold.”
― Resmaa Menakem, The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning

“If millions of us do this, the shifts in our bodies can shift our culture, our country, and the trajectory of history.”
― Resmaa Menakem, The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning

“Thomas Jefferson thought that the United States ought to have a revolution every generation so that democracy could periodically purge itself of contaminants. He meant political revolutions; we have watered down his advice and created a succession of “lifestyle” revolutions instead. Just at the point when a radical innovation or movement might begin to elicit significant discussion within our social order, it makes the cover of Time and receives testimonials from one or two Hollywood stars. Thus elevated into harmlessness, it is soon discarded, leaving little more than a vague, residual stain on our cultural fashions.”
― Frederick Salomon Perls, Gestalt Therapy Verbatim

“Meanwhile, to rally and organize its followers, and to recruit new ones, the Republican Party has been using techniques perfected by the Ku Klux Klan and, later, the German and American Nazi Parties and the South African apartheid government.”
― Resmaa Menakem, The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation's Upheaval and Racial Reckoning