Bearing Witness Quotes

• Cuando damos testimonio, cuando nos convertimos en la situación -sin techo, pobreza, enfermedad, violencia, muerte- la acción correcta surge por sí misma. No tenemos que preocuparnos de qué hacer. No tenemos que buscar soluciones de antemano. La pacificación consiste en dar testimonio. Una vez que escuchamos con todo nuestro cuerpo y nuestra mente, surge la acción amorosa.

  Bernie Glassman

  Inspiración, Muerte, Budista

  Bernie Glassman (2013). "Dar testimonio: A Zen Master's Lessons in Making Peace", p.62, Penguin

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• Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

  Jane Rule

  Arte, Trabajo, Pensamiento

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• The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.

  Bianca Jagger

  Believe, Voice, People

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• Me he ganado la vida siendo testigo de algunos de los acontecimientos más horribles del final de nuestro siglo, del final del siglo XX.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Events, Century, Ends

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• With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.

  Ibrahim Babangida

  Book, Ideas, Body

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• Por los muertos y los vivos, debemos dar testimonio.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Holocaust, Bears

  "Elie Wiesel, Premio Nobel y superviviente del Holocausto, fallece a los 87 años" por Alan Yuhas, www.theguardian.com. 2 th Of July de 2016.

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• It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

  Maxine Kumin

  Important, Matter, Ifs

  Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”

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• Los individuos que dan testimonio no pueden hacer el trabajo de los movimientos sociales, pero pueden romper un silencio corrosivo y desmoralizador.

  Ellen Willis

  Silencio, Movimiento, Individual

  "Tres elegías para Susan Sontag". "Nueva Política", Vol. X, No. 3, 2005.

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• Soy escritor y mi fe en el mundo del arte es intensa, pero no irracional ni ingenua, porque el arte nos lleva y nos hace emprender un viaje más allá del precio, más allá del coste, para dar testimonio del mundo tal como es y tal como debería ser. El arte nos invita a conocer la belleza y a solicitarla, a convocarla, incluso desde la más trágica de las circunstancias.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Journey, Cost

  FaceBook post by Toni Morrison from May 29, 2013

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• We shall not weary, we shall not rest, as we stand guard at the entrance gates and the exit gates of life, and at every step along way of life, bearing witness in word and deed to the dignity of the human person-of every human person.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Deeds, Way, Exit

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• I always felt called to serve, to empower and ennoble as many people as I could, teaching, truth-telling, exposing lies, bearing witness, and being willing to live and die for something bigger than yourself.

  Cornel West

  Lying, Teaching, People

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Ser padre no era sólo tener un hijo. Era ser testigo de su vida.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Children, Adoption

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.

  Dan Gillerman

  Remembrance, Holocaust, Torches

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• Todos los días, día y noche, oímos las mentiras de que el 11 de septiembre es la peor tragedia, el peor accidente y el peor crimen que se ha cometido en suelo estadounidense. Somos testigos de que el peor crimen, la peor tragedia, que jamás haya tenido lugar en suelo americano no es el 11 de septiembre. No son las torres gemelas. Es el holocausto con el que los negros han lidiado durante 400 años.

  Malik Zulu Shabazz

  Mentir, Tomar, Noche

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• When we're writing anything, we're bearing witness to the time we live in and how it's different from any other time in history.

  Alison Hawthorne Deming

  Writing, Different, Witness

  Interview with Christopher Adamson, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.

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• Art invites us to know beauty and to solicit it, summon it, from even the most tragic of circumstances.

  Toni Morrison

  Art, Circumstances, Tragic

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• Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is likely, all unwittingly, to do the opposite, for bearing witness is lonely: it breeds feelings of superiority and moralistic anger against those who are not doing the same.

  Ellen Willis

  Lonely, Opposites, Feelings

  "Three Elegies for Susan Sontag". "New Politics", Vol. X, No. 3, Summer 2005.

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• I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.

  Janet Morris

  Revenge, Risk, Quarrels

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• An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.

  Lucy R. Lippard

  Lines, Landscape, Sticks

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• Like civil-rights protesters who sang rousing hymns as they were carried off to jail, Twitterers are bearing witness to what's happening around them, and calling out into the darkness of cyberspace for confirmation. I'm here. You're here, too. We are present.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Rights, Hymns, Jail

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• Elevar la mirada al Dios vivo, garante de nuestra libertad y de la verdad, es una premisa para llegar a una nueva humanidad. Hoy, de manera especial, el mundo necesita personas capaces de anunciar y testimoniar a Dios, que es amor y, por tanto, la única luz que, en definitiva, ilumina las tinieblas del mundo y nos da fuerza para vivir y trabajar.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Luz, Dar, Gente

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• I know I can't make time slow down, can't hold our life as it is in a freeze frame or slow my children's inexorable journeys into adulthood and lives of their own. But I can celebrate those journeys by bearing witness to them, by paying attention, and, perhaps most of all, by carrying on with my own growth and becoming. Now it dawns on me that the only way I can figure out what I'm meant to be doing is to try to understand who I'm meant to be...I will not waste this life, not one hour, not one minute. I will not take for granted the blessing of our being here...I will give thanks.

  Katrina Kenison

  Children, Blessing, Journey

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• My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Writing, Opportunity, Stories

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• The best armor of old age is a well-spent life preceding it.

  Charlie Munger

  Age, Armor, Useful Knowledge

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• I think writers are the history keepers, right? We're the ones who are bearing witness to what's going on in the world. And I feel like it's our job to put that down on paper, and put it out into the world, so that it can be remembered.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Jobs, Thinking, World

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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