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    Lao Tzu
    “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: travel
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    John F. Kennedy
    “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

    [Inaugural Address, January 20 1961]”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: assistance, compassion, development-aid, duty, freedom, liberty, moral-obligation, poor, rich, social-security, society, third-world, wealth
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    Saul D. Alinsky
    “If people don't think they have the power to solve their problems, they won't even think about how to solve them.”
    ― Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
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    Hélder Câmara
    “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
    ― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
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    Marcus Garvey
    “The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.”
    ― Marcus Garvey
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    Philip Gourevitch
    “Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.”
    ― Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
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    Steve Biko
    “The greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”
    ― Steve Biko
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    Edmund Burke
    “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: evil
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    Saul D. Alinsky
    “Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.”
    ― Saul D. Alinsky, Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
    tags: activism, politics
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Lao Tzu
    “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
    tags: apothegm, beauty, truth
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    Vladimir Lenin
    “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”
    ― Vladimir Lenin
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    Nelson Mandela
    “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: bravery, courage, fear
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    Ernesto Che Guevara
    “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.”
    ― Ernesto Che Guevara
    tags: justice, social-justice
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    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    ― Narcotics Anonymous
    tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein
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    Edmund Burke
    “Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
    ― Edmund Burke
    tags: doomed-to-repeat-it, history, learning, school
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    Ha-Joon Chang
    “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
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    Ha-Joon Chang
    “The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.”
    ― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
    tags: economy
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    Ha-Joon Chang
    “Equality of opportunity is not enough. Unless we create an environment where everyone is guaranteed some minimum capabilities through some guarantee of minimum income, education, and healthcare, we cannot say that we have fair competition. When some people have to run a 100 metre race with sandbags on their legs, the fact that no one is allowed to have a head start does not make the race fair. Equality of opportunity is absolutely necessary but not sufficient in building a genuinely fair and efficient society.”
    ― Ha-Joon Chang, 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
    tags: equality, equity, opportunity, social-justice
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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
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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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    Stephen Colbert
    “If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
    ― Stephen Colbert
    tags: christ, christian, christian-behavior, poor, religion, selfish
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    Stephen Colbert
    “Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say “yes'.”
    ― Stephen Colbert
    tags: cynicism, optimism, wisdom, youth
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    Muhammad Yunus
    “When we want to help the poor, we usually offer them charity. Most often we use charity to avoid recognizing the problem and finding the solution for it. Charity becomes a way to shrug off our responsibility. But charity is no solution to poverty. Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor. Charity allows us to go ahead with our own lives without worrying about the lives of the poor. Charity appeases our consciences.”
    ― Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty
    tags: charity, poor, poverty, social-change
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    John Green
    “One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John Green
    If you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.”
    ― John Green
    tags: economics, poor, rich, rules
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: military, social-change, war
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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: happiness
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  • #28
    “Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
    ― Marthe Troly-Curtin, Phrynette Married
    tags: happiness, misattributed-john-lennon, procrastination, time
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    Mark Twain
    “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: misattributed-mark-twain, truth
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
    8494 likes



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