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For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.
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Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.
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We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.
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Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.
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I think of Wangari Mathai in Kenya. If she started out saying she wanted to plant 20 million trees, she would have been laughed at. In fact, the foresters and the government did laugh at her. They said, Villagers? Un-schooled villagers? Planting trees? No, no, no, it takes foresters. So she planted trees anyway.
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Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.
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I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound impact on me. Fromm takes Descartes' statement, I think, therefore I am and changes it to I effect, therefore I am.
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Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food.
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Because we are living in a culture increasingly dominated by fear where many feel blocked.
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With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.
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We can all reprogram our brain's responses by putting ourselves into new, initially uncomfortable situations. We'll learn fear might not mean 'stop' I've come to believe fear usually means 'go.
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Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
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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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[O]ur greatest contributions to the cause of freedom and development overseas is not what we do over there, but what we do right here at home.
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Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.
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On the one hand, our social nature is our greatest beauty - it means that we have natural empathy and sympathy. But our social nature also means that we may let ourselves be controlled by the judgments of others, precisely because we care so much about our status in community.
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If we start with limits and a premise of scarcity and fear, it makes us fearful of each other, and that makes us vulnerable to anti-democratic systems.
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I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.
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The good life is not about avoiding fear. Just the opposite.
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