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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PztCw49OQ2g
'it turns out that justice is actually a practice. it can be measured. equity can be measured. fairness stability connection can be felt. so you understand when i say that i don't want your love i want justice. i want justice for the women who have borne and raised children throughout time in our society and their labor has gone unpaid and under appreciated and this has been the single hinderance of having a just society. i want justice for the women that choose to not bear children (!!!) and instead bring their creative life force to the workplace to the artistic sphere to problem solving the most intractable challenges of our world. i want them to have equal pay for equal work and not have to choose between opportunity and their dignity. i don't want your love i want justice for the people that live in poverty. i want you to recognize that that is an indication of our society's impoverished imagination but that the people themselves are storehouses of richness resilience love and many many other qualities that we need in our society. i don't want your love i want justice for the people of different ethnicities cultures and religions who have always been the lifeblood of this nation and the engines of our success. i want treaties restored. i want undocumented people to be recognized for the fact that the borders crossed them one hundred and sixty years ago. i want life liberty and the pursuit of happiness to extend equally to all peoples so that muslims can eat pray love and dress as they choose. i don't want your love i want justice for the millions of black people that are compelled to live in a heightened sense of danger. the threat to our lives which do matter being very real. i want reparations for the one trillion dollars of unpaid labor over four hundred years and is the major underpinning of the economic dominance of this nation. i don't need your love but i must must have justice for the girl and boy children that have the divine right to grow up with their innocence in tact. to never never have to believe that an offer of love is something that they should be suspect of. i want an end to the patriarchy that tells girls to be careful and boys to be men and in the process undermines our unabashed commitment to love as something that inspires awe brings us into connection and tethers our heart to justice for all. most of all i want justice for you and you and you. that you may find those spaces inside of you that are unacknowledged unhealed unloved and have a practice in which you deepen and reconnect those places. you can see why i've been heartbroken about love. does that mean that we should give up on it? no. what i'm betting is that when we have the opportunity, when we are all empowered to live in a just society when you have the commitment to deepen a practice in which you reconnect those parts of yourself that you left behind, when you practice centering into presence as many times as you possibly can over and over again, when you choose not just to love but to be you, then and only then, you might just have room to love me too'
angel kyodo williams
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