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Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.

Arundhati Roy

I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don’t know.
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Country Cry Myself River Tears
As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I’ve spent my whole life fighting tradition. There’s no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.
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Career Fight Grow Up Job Life Myself Tradition Woman
I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don’t mess with me.
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Divorce Hell Husband Injustice Mess Mom Myself Oppression Pay Price Violence Woman
The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.
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Creation Oneself People Place
Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They’re usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there’s the business of war.
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Business Reason War
The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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Beyond Life Way World
The world’s ‘freeest’ country has the highest number in prison.
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Country Freedom Prison World
Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn’t matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.
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Destroy Destruction Weapon
The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.
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Innocent Politics Quiet Responsibility See Trouble Yourself
We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.
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Destruction Government Kind Need Politics Resistance World
Excitement always leads to tears.
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Destination Excitement One Liner Path Tears
Money need not be our only reward.
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Money Need One Liner Ourselves Reward
Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
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Difference One Liner Sick Terrorism
Is globalization about ‘the eradication of world poverty,’ or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?
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Control Digital Poor World
Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It’s over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don’t.
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Change Destroy History Love Past
Ever since the Great Depression, we know that one of the key ways in which the US economy has stimulated growth is by manufacturing weapons and exporting war to other countries.
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Country Depression Greatness Growth Key Way Weapon

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