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My whole mission in life is to help us find the power we lack to create the world we want.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new ism, but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.
Frances Moore Lappé
Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.
Frances Moore Lappé
Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.
Frances Moore Lappé
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.
Frances Moore Lappé
Little wonder that it can seem unthinkable to say no, thanks to the modern-day equivalent of our tribe - our fear-driven culture.
Frances Moore Lappé
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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We can't see ahead of time what actions are going to be the ones that move history in dramatic ways.
Frances Moore Lappé
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.
Frances Moore Lappé
What has dawned on me is that focusing on the finite planet frame sends a message that we have gone as far as Nature can take us and therefore we need to give power to forces outside Nature.
Frances Moore Lappé
Relationships are the core message of ecology.
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Despite a tenfold increase in the use of pesticides between 1947 and 1974 (in the US), crop losses due to pests have...remained at an estimated 33%. Losses due to insects alone have nearly doubled, ...from 7% in the 1942-1951 period to about 13% in 1974.
Frances Moore Lappé
We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.
Frances Moore Lappé
A life-long mission has been to counter the notion that political engagement is the spinach we must eat in order to have the dessert of freedom.
Frances Moore Lappé
With an eco-mind, we get ready for surprises, for we realize it's just not possible to know what's possible.
Frances Moore Lappé
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.
Frances Moore Lappé
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.
Frances Moore Lappé
[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.
Frances Moore Lappé
What we need to get right is not focusing on the fear associated with quantity - not enough, scarcity, and lack - and moving instead to a worldview that explores quality and connectedness.
Frances Moore Lappé
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.
Frances Moore Lappé
History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches.
Frances Moore Lappé
