True Strength equals love

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”

                                           Kahlil Gibran

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.”

                                            Kahlil Gibran

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We live in a “power over” world

Where winners gloat

Those with power

Use privilege to

Wound and debase

And seek to crush those

Who are not like them

With them

As old angers and fears

Reveal themselves

And kindness and compassion

Disappear

covered by vengeance

and oppression

as surely as the snow covers the naked earth

but such a world cannot continue to exist

an eye for an eye

and soon the whole world will be blind

and the soul of the world will shrivel

hope will die

we cannot give into those who sit

in high towers on gilded thrones

and believe that power and wealth are everything

we cannot give in to those who emboldened in their hate

harass and abuse

we cannot give in

and we must remember

That tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair,

but manifestations of true strength

Long live the resistance