To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.
Dorothee Solletoleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.
Dorothee SolleA language that takes our emotions seriously and gives them real weight in our lives encourages us to think and be and act differently.
Dorothee SolleThe more people anticipate the elimination of suffering the less strength they have actually to oppose it. Whoever deals with his personal suffering only in the way our society has taught him - through illusion, minimization, suppression, apathy - will deal with societal suffering in the same way.
Dorothee Solle