“ It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man. Alice Walker
“ Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth, of humanity, depends upon a feeling of connection with… Judith Lewis Herman
“ Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors, which in turn dehumanizes the oppressed Paulo Freire
“ I tried to map the cultural trends leading up to it but as I did they grew, interconnecting and weaving backwards and sideways out to everything. Next to the megalithic institutionalized shredding of… Vanessa Veselka