“Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence.”
? Dalai Lama XIV …

“Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too – if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.” — Michael Moore
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“No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.” — James A. Baldwin …

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” — Albert Einstein …

“A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.” — Salman Rushdie
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“It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.” — Douglas MacArthur …

“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against [it].” — Malcolm X …

“The simple truth is that we cannot govern our own affairs when our national, state, and local debates are bought and sold by billionaires, who use thirty second commercials to shout down anyone who disagrees. Democracy demands a rich, robust discourse about ideas, not a spending spree that demeans those ideas, diminishes honest debate and turns off voters to the political process.” – Bernie Sanders from the foreword Dollarocracy …

“Words are like quilts. You have to put a bunch together to make something warm and comforting or patch together something that will prick and scratch the spirit.” – Nikki Giovanni. …

“Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world.” – bell hooks …