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Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.
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The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.
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We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.
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Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.
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We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.
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[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.
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The spirit that I am advocating is reframing how we view the world, and shifting from the negativity of lack and not enough to the positive frame of aligning with Nature.
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When we say we have hit the limits, we are saying that nature is the problem, when in fact the limits we have hit are the limits of destruction and waste, not nature.
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Fear doesn't have to stop us.
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There are surprising turning points there is the straw that breaks the camel's back, and you never know if your action could be the straw.
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This is the first generation to know that the choices we're making have ultimate consequences. It's a time when you either choose life or you choose death ... Going along with the current order means that you're choosing death.
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Honest hope has an edge. It's messy. It requires that we let go of all pat answers, all preconceived formulas, all confidence that our sailing will be smooth. It's not a resting point. Honest hope is movement.
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If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.
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We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.
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