5 Quotes by Ada María Isasi-Díaz

The history of Christianity shows that orthodox objections to syncretism have less to do with the purity of faith, and more with who has the right to determine what is to be considered normative and official.

To name oneself is one of the most powerful acts any person can do.

Humility is not a matter of self-effacement and self-negation but of being open always to new ways of being responsible.

Those of us who belong to marginalized, oppressed groups have come to understand that what is called "objective" is simply the understanding of a given group of people who have the power to impose that understanding as normative in society.

... diversity is not a matter of different expressions of the same truth, but rather points to differences that touch the very core of who we are and what we believe.