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Yes We Can! Yes We Are! | Manifesting Our Innate Peace and Freedom

Peace and Freedom, by Dhyana Stanley

Photograph by Simon Russell

Trump’s election has provided a compelling opportunity to declare what we stand for — peace and freedom — rather than what we stand against — fear and oppression.

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Many of the people who went out to march after Trump’s election were not ‘protesting against’ but ‘marching for’ something: peace and freedom. They made clear that their goal was not to perpetuate fear and blame. This was communicated in the words they spoke and had written on their signs. It was also evident in how they carried themselves and carried those signs.

Great political leaders, such as Gandhi

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