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He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Arundhati Roy

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
Anything’s possible in Human Nature …Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
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Hope Human Joy Love Mad Nature Possible
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
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Clothes Color Death Government Kind Mindset Nation Oneself People
At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.
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Believe Courage Dignity Dreams Freedom Hope Justice Lost Opportunity Romance Time
How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain’s festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international con�icts of today.
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Care Civilization Gift Power Present World
The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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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
To annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We think they are relics of the past, but they may be the gatekeepers to our future.
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Future Live Ourselves Past People Practice Thinking
I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a ‘natural ally’ of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.
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Feeling Shame Slave Thinking
Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.
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The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability. Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.
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Break History Ideas Need Power Remember Revolution War Weapon
Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed out, and it has been returned to us as a vehicle for the free market, of the corporations. For the corporations, by the corporations.
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Coporation Democracy Freedom Institution Return
Sometimes there’s truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.
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Justice Old Peace Reality Resistance Truth
States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence – so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only – or well that’s excessive – usually, the resistance.
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Investment Legal Resistence Right Violence
NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.
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Dangerous Time Worst
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

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

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