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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.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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Every time you take a step and walk with your fear, you'll never know the impact. But you can be certain somebody's watching, and that courage is contagious.
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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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We didn't evolve to be passive victims or shoppers.
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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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We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.
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Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.
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Individuality doesn't just mean individualism-standing alone. It means developing one's unique gifts, and being able to share them for the enjoyment of oneself and others.
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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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You have increasing poverty and increasing wealth. Fine food is one way to dispense with a lot of money... It's understanding that our daily choices about food connect us to a worldwide economic system. And that economic system - not scarcity - creates worldwide hunger for millions of people.
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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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I also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking and challenge us to do things we didn't believe ourselves capable of.
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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 like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able.
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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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Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.
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