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3: Fight - Valarie Kaur

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“When you love someone, you fight to protect them when they are in harm’s way. If you ‘see no stranger’ and choose to love all people, then you must fight for anyone who is in harm’s way. This was the path of the warrior-sage: the warrior fights, the sage loves.” “The fight impulse is ancient and fundamental. These ancestors fought with swords and shields, bows and arrows, because they had no choice. They did not have a sophisticated matrix of legal and political avenues to defend civil and human rights, nor international law to mediate conflicts between nations. We have these avenues today. We no longer need literal weapons like the ancestors. But we could still learn from how they marshalled the fight impulse in the battlefield.” —Valarie Kaur, See No Stranger, Chapter 3 To fight is to choose to protect those in harm’s way. To fight with revolutionary love is to fight against injustice alongside those most impacted by harm, in a way that preserves our opponents’ humanity as well as o

Learn → The Compass → Love for Others → Love for Opponents → Love for Ourselves → Resources You can use the Revolutionary Love Compass as a tool in all arenas in your life. We have identified ten core practices of revolutionary love , backed by research and infused with ancestral wisdom. Revolutionary Love is the choice to labor for others, our opponents, and ourselves to transform the world around us. It begins with wonder: “You are a part of me I do not yet know.” Think of these practices as points on a compass. Point the compass toward whomever you want to practice loving— another, an oppon

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