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Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

Frances Moore Lappé

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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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Oregon
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Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say no, thanks to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture.
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in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.
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For me, just showing up for the traveling and writing gave me the power to overcome my fear of fear.
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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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My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.
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I never like to use those terms [like pessimistic].
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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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History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches.
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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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We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.
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What was so moving for [Diane Wilson], and also for me, is that she felt the Bay itself was like her grandmother. She said, I don't think there's a woman alive who would give up fighting for her child, or her mother, or her grandmother.
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How we frame the world - how we talk about it and define it - affects how we see things and how we live.
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Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for.
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Fear doesn't necessarily mean that we have to stop. It doesn't mean that we are failures. It doesn't mean that we are cowards.
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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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