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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: poverty, violence
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: attributed-no-source, conflict, fighting, peace, revenge, trial, violence
    13702 likes

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    Isaac Asimov
    “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
    ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
    tags: violence
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    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
    946 likes

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    “When people believe that the local government and economy serve their needs. There is little desire to protest.”
    ― Oscar Auliq-Ice
    tags: demonstrations, economic-collapse, economic-depression, economics-philosophy, political-rights, protests, riots
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    Kate Raworth
    “…environmental quality is higher where income is more equitably distributed, where more people are literate, and civil and political rights are better respected. It’s people power, not economic growth persay, that protects local air and water quality. Likewise, it is citizen pressure on government and companies for more stringent standards, not the mere increase in revenue that compels industries to switch to cleaner technologies.”
    ― Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
    tags: civil-rights, economics, environmental, equitable, income, literate, people-power, political-rights, revenue
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    Wangari Maathai
    “The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.”
    ― Wangari Maathai
    tags: ecological, environmental, environmentalism, generational, selfishness
    42 likes

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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: environmental
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    Lois Lenski
    “A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.”
    ― Lois Lenski, Texas Tomboy
    tags: environmental, lesson-for-life
    7 likes

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    Bryant McGill
    “An environment of infinite economic expansion is unsustainable in a world of finite resources.”
    ― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
    tags: economics, environmental, expansive, finite, infinite, resources, teaching
    5 likes

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    Carl Safina
    “The more humans fill the world, the more we empty it.”
    ― Carl Safina, Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are
    tags: activism, animals, environmental, extinction, humanity, humans
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    “At this point in history, could there be anything more sensible than planting trees with cannons?”
    ― Steve Mushin, Ultrawild: An Audacious Plan to Rewild Every City on Earth
    tags: environmental, innovation
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    Lawrence Nault
    “The land remembers. Even if we forget, the soil stores every cut, every kindness.”
    ― Lawrence Nault
    tags: connection, earth, environment, environmental, healing, history, land, memory, nature, wisdom
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    George Orwell
    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
    ― George Orwell
    tags: freedom-of-speech, liberty
    2246 likes

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    Henry Louis Gates Jr.
    “Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.”
    ― Henry Louis Gates Jr
    tags: african-american, american, censorship, freedom-of-speech, freedom-of-thought, freedom-to-read, literary
    1114 likes

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    Theodore Roosevelt
    “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: dissent, freedom-of-speech, truth-telling
    1117 likes

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    George Washington
    “If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
    ― George Washington
    tags: freedom, freedom-of-speech
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    Harry Truman
    “Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear."

    [Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950]”
    ― Harry S. Truman
    tags: censorship, dissent, freedom-of-speech, opposition, politics, repression
    727 likes

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    Shannon L. Alder
    “Confidence is knowing who you are and not changing it a bit because of someone’s version of reality is not your reality.”
    ― Shannon L. Alder
    tags: assertiveness, authenticity, being-yourself, brainwashed, confidence, courage, differing-perspectives, expressing-yourself, freedom-of-expression, freedom-of-speech, independence, individualism, peer-pressure, personalities, perspectives, reality, self-esteem, self-love, self-respect, self-worth, standing-out, stayingpositiveu-com, unique
    211 likes

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    Edward Snowden
    “Ultimately, saying that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.”
    ― Edward Snowden, Permanent Record
    tags: freedom-of-speech, mass-surveillance, nothing-to-hide, nsa, privacy, surveillance
    111 likes

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    Aung San Suu Kyi
    “To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.”
    ― Aung San Suu Kyi, Letters from Burma
    tags: democracy, freedom, freedom-of-speech, politics
    103 likes

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    Søren Kierkegaard
    “People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
    ― Søren Kierkegaard
    tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity
    4202 likes

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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: democracy, fascism, liberty, loss, politics, society, totalitarianism, war
    1989 likes

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    Malcolm X
    “You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker”
    ― Malcom X
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
    991 likes

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    Vladimir Lenin
    “Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”
    ― Vladimir Lenin
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, hope, individualism, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism
    985 likes

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    James Bovard
    “Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”
    ― James Bovard, Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty
    tags: democracy, freedom, government, misattributed-ben-franklin, paraphrase-gary-strand
    820 likes

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    Leon Trotsky
    “The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.”
    ― Leon Trotsky, Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice
    tags: communism, democracy, freedom, history, liberty, philosophy, politics, revolution, socialism, utilitarianism
    619 likes

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    Noam Chomsky
    “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.”
    ― Noam Chomsky, Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
    tags: democracy, mass-media, propaganda, repression, totalitarianism
    340 likes

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    E.B. White
    “Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.”
    ― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web
    tags: blind-faith, gullibility, humor, insidious, mass-media, media, media-distortion
    263 likes

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    Jess C. Scott
    “People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.”
    ― Jess C. Scott, Literary Heroin (Gluttony): A Twilight Parody
    tags: dark-humor, entertainment, herd-mentality, humor, hype, mainstream-media, mass-media, media, mindlessness, pop-culture, sheep, sheep-mentality, sheeple, television
    181 likes



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