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    Dr. Seuss
    “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: attributed-no-source, dreams, love, reality, sleep
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    Mae West
    “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
    ― Mae West
    tags: humor, life
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    André Gide
    “It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
    ― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves
    tags: life, love
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    Douglas Adams
    “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
    ― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
    tags: life, navigation
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  • #5
    Dr. Seuss
    “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
    Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
    ― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
    tags: activism
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    Elie Wiesel
    “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”
    ― Elie Wiesel
    tags: activism, advocacy, protest
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  • #7
    You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new
    “You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
    To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
    ― Buckminster Fuller
    tags: activism, adaption, change, development, digital-revolution, future, movement, new-models, p2p, progress, progression, protest, revolution, science, society, structural-changes, technology, world, zeitgeist, zeitgeist-movement
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  • #8
    “The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
    ― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions
    tags: anger, freedom, misattributed-gloria-steinem, truth
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  • #9
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    ― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929
    tags: fact, ignorance, truth
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  • #10
    Gabriel García Márquez
    “It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
    ― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
    tags: existence, truth
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    Primo Levi
    “Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
    ― Primo Levi
    tags: common-men, danger, existence, holocaust, monsters, questions
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  • #12
    Plato
    “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
    ― Plato
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  • #13
    Howard Zinn
    “How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?”
    ― Howard Zinn
    tags: blowback, propaganda, terrorism, war
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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    Joseph Campbell
    “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
    ― Joseph Campbell
    tags: change, life, open-heart, open-mind, resilience
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  • #16
    Rosa Luxemburg
    “Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
    ― Rosa Luxemburg
    tags: evolution, freedom, history, liberation, progress, struggle
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  • #17
    Alan Moore
    “We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors.”
    ― Alan Moore, Watchmen
    tags: progress
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    Richelle Mead
    “The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.”
    ― Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy
    tags: politics, revolution
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    Frantz Fanon
    “Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are
    presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new
    evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is
    extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it
    is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,
    ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”
    ― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
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  • #20
    Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. [Remarks on the first
    “Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

    [Remarks on the first anniversary of the Alliance for Progress, 13 March 1962]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: peacefulness, political-rights, protest, revolution, violence
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    Vladimir Lenin
    “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
    ― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
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  • #22
    Alan Moore
    “Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”
    ― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta
    tags: anarchism, politics, revolution
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  • #23
    Howard Zinn
    “But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.”
    ― Howard Zinn, Marx in Soho: A Play on History
    tags: revolution, truth-telling
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  • #24
    Malcolm X
    “The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.”
    ― Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements
    tags: activism, awareness, change, education, knowledge, revolution, truth
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  • #25
    Emiliano Zapata
    “It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.”
    ― Emiliano Zapata
    tags: defiance, revolution
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  • #26
    Subcomandante Marcos
    “We are sorry for the inconvenience, but this is a revolution.”
    ― Subcomandante Marcos
    tags: revolution, zapatista
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  • #27
    Thomas Paine
    “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
    ― Thomas Paine
    tags: history, revolution
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  • #28
    Huey P. Newton
    “My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.”
    ― Huey P. Newton
    tags: honor, revolution
    112 likes



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