Holly Roach Knight

Transforming oppression

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“I want to be able to transform oppression rather than cut it out like a cancer.”

— Holly Roach Knight
Speaker
Holly Roach Knight
Country
USA
Published
September 2020
Director's Note
We met Holly in a beautiful little cabine in Saxapahaw (North Carolina), she was preparing for a demonstration in Washington. She explained to us how contemplation/meditation can be a useful tool when doing social activism.
Full Transcript
The contemplative has expanded my awareness and thus it expanded the empathy that I have. Five years ago, if I had been able to round up all the oppressors on the planet and all the perpetrators of violence on the planet and put them on an island and dropped a nuclear bomb and eradicated all of them, I would have thought that would be a good thing for humanity. And the contemplative has given me a heart even for the oppressor. I want to be able to transform oppression rather than cut it out like a cancer. I want that even the perpetrators of violence and oppression be transformed because they are a part of the wholeness of all humanity.
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