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"Beautiful and profound, Kimmerer is a master at transmitting the wisdom of the Indigenous peoples of our nation. We urgently need to learn from their ancient wisdom — to begin restoring the natural balance in the world, acting through gratitude for our natural Mother, and practicing reciprocity with her." Jan 12, 2021 03:50PM

 
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Howard Zinn
“I think people are dazzled by Obama's rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president — which means, in our time, a dangerous president — unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.”
Howard Zinn

Pyotr Kropotkin
“Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.”
Peter Kropotkin, In Russian and French Prisons

George Orwell
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
George Orwell

Francis Bacon
“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.”
Francis Bacon

Pyotr Kropotkin
“Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for? ”
Peter Kropotkin, Memoirs of a Revolutionist

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