It is the choice to extend our will for the flourishing of others and ourselves. It is an active, political, and moral response to violence, hate, and otherness. She argues that this type of love is not a passing feeling it is an act of will. Drawing from her personal experiences, Sikh wisdom, and the work of civil rights leaders of all kinds, Kaur has reenvisioned love as a public ethic: a commitment to loving others, opponents, and ourselves. When we practice love in the face of fear or rage, it has the ability to transform an encounter, a relationship, a community, a culture, even a country. Valarie Kaur is a renowned Sikh activist and in this book, she argues that Revolutionary Love is the call of our times. and around the globe, this book answers the central question of our time: How do we love in a time of anger? How do we love those who hurt us? How do we love those who are different from us, whose race or religion or politics we do not understand? How do we love people who are targeted by laws, policies, and violence? And how do we love ourselves? In a moment when people are hungry for meaningful ways to respond to the ascent of nationalism, polarization and hate in the U.S. We have entered a new era in America-dangerous, divided, and uncertain. A renowned Sikh activist champions the power of love as an active response to violence and division, and explains how it can enact transformative political and social change.
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