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We are very much social creatures who model ourselves on one another.
Frances Moore Lappé
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Frances Moore Lappé
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 10
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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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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.
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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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Beauty is created by fellow human beings, and enhanced because they are in relationship with each other.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.
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Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.
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A teacher told me this story some time ago: She asked her students to line up in order of how much power they thought they had relative to the others in the class, and they all fought to be last in line. They didn't want to acknowledge that they had personal power.
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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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Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For the feed cost of your steak, each of their bowls could be filled with a cup pf cooked cereal grains.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.
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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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