25 Quotes by Valarie Kaur

Today I remember all that is beautiful and good and worth fighting for.Today I remember that the labor for justice has gone on for centuries before me and will go on for centuries after me.Today I remember that I am not alone - that if millions of women are listening to the wisdom within them too, and still choose to return to the work, then we will usher in a new era - where women are believed, where women lead.

The norms and institutions that order this world are not inevitable but constructed - and therefore can be changed.

When one of us does something bad, we tend to attribute it to circumstance, but when one of them does the same, we attribute it to essence - Oh, that’s just how they are. We think of us as complex and multidimensional; we tend to think of them as simple and one-dimensional … In other words, who we see as one of us determines who we let inside our circle of care and concern.

There is no such thing as monsters in this world. There are only human beings who are wounded.

The more I listen, the less I hate. The less I hate, the more I am free to choose actions that are controlled not by animosity but by wisdom.

Stereotypes are the most reductive kind of story: They reduce others to single, crude images.

The voices we spend the most time listening to, in the world and inside our own minds, shape the way we see, how we feel, and what we do.