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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.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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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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Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.
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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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