Quotes - Drew Brown (Melbourne, Australia) Showing 1-16 of 16

#1

“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. ”
― Paulo Freire

tags: inequality, neutrality, power, powerlessness, radicalism

623 likes

#2

“Women hold up half the sky.”
― Mao Zedong

141 likes

#3

“To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.”
― Ho Chi Minh

tags: education, growth, investment, progress, society

75 likes

#4

“It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.”
― Peter Kropotkin, Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

tags: mistakes

111 likes

#5

“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.”
― Rosa Luxemburg

tags: evolution, freedom, history, liberation, progress, struggle

1176 likes

#6

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.”
― Plato

tags: attributed-no-source, compassion, kindness

10093 likes

#7

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

[These words are also inscribed upon his grave]”
― Karl Marx, Eleven Theses on Feuerbach

tags: action, change, ideology, philosophy, resistance, struggle

1671 likes

#8

“Once you realize that trickle-down economics does not work, you will see the excessive tax cuts for the rich as what they are -- a simple upward redistribution of income, rather than a way to make all of us richer, as we were told.”
― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

tags: economics, economy, recession, social-justice, tax-cuts, taxation, taxes

143 likes

#9

“Stop breaking yourself down into bite-sized pieces. Stay whole and let them choke.” –”
― Florence Given, Women Don't Owe You Pretty

48 likes

#10

“If history bothered to document our stories, there wouldn't be enough paper in the world to bear witness to all the women who've been imprisoned because our emotions proved too inconvenient for men to handle and too terrifying for them to ignore.”
― Clementine Ford, Fight Like a Girl

16 likes

#11

“There’s nothing feminist about having so many resources at your fingertips and choosing to be ignorant. Nothing empowering or enlightening in deciding that intent trumps impact. Especially when the consequences aren’t going to be experienced by you, but will instead be experienced by someone from a marginalized community.”
― Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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#12