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For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.
Grace Paley
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My general rule is that if everyone knew how to cook fresh produce from their local area, and Monday to Thursday within 20 minutes, you know, there's millions of recipes out there to be had.
Jamie Oliver
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I am afraid that I think both the near future environmental reality and political landscape are not looking good - and they are connected. The best tool we have for advancing environmental solutions is our democracy, and we can't currently access it because it has been so thoroughly hijacked by big corporate interests.
Annie Leonard
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Activists need to get the facts right. One of the big assets we have on our side is the truth, and we lose credibility and power if w e're loose with that.
Annie Leonard
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I think history has less of an impact on current times than the stories that we tell ourselves about that history [do].
Annie Leonard
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Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can.
Annie Leonard
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Put simply, if we do not redirect our extraction and production systems and change the way we distribute, consume, and dispose of our stuff - what I sometimes call the take-make-waste model - the economy as it is will kill the planet.
Annie Leonard
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There is no such thing as away. When you throw something away, it must go somewhere.
Annie Leonard
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Our primary identity has become that of being consumers – not mothers, teachers, or farmers, but of consumers. We shop and shop and shop.
Annie Leonard
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We depend on this planet to eat, drink, breathe, and live. Figuring out how to keep our life support system running needs to be our number-one priority. Nothing is more important than finding a way to live together - justly, respectfully, sustainably, joyfully - on the only planet we can call home.
Annie Leonard
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Bottled water costs about 2000 times more than tap water. Can you imagine paying 2000 times the price of anything else? How about a $ 10,000 sandwich?
Annie Leonard
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Let's forget about the mythical Jesus and look for encouragement, solace and inspiration from real women... Two thousand years of patriarchal rule under the shadow of the cross ought to be enough to turn women toward the feminist 'salvation' of this world
Annie Laurie Gaylor
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I consider that the Golden Rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. Software sellers want to divide the users and conquer them, making each user agree not to share with others. I refuse to break solidarity with other users in this way.
Richard Stallman
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The widening of woman's sphere is to improve her lot. Let us do it, and if the world scoff, let it scoff if it sneer, let it sneer.
Lucy Stone
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That is the difference between St. Jude's and all other children's hospitals. The other hospitals are not bad at all they're good hospitals, but they're just working with what they know, and St. Jude's is working with what nobody else knows, because they're doing research.
Marlo Thomas
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Do you remember when we picketed the White House in 1965?
Barbara Gittings
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That's why I call the Senate the graveyard of democracy, because even when you have 58 senators, they can block it and block it and block it.
Ralph Nader
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Religion is often politics made sacred.
Gloria Steinem
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Ain't no reason for me to kill nobody in the ring, unless they deserve it.
Muhammad Ali
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Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?
Unita Blackwell
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Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.
Unita Blackwell
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There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.
Unita Blackwell
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To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where they're going.
Unita Blackwell
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People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.
Unita Blackwell
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