The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.
ARUNDHATI ROYViolating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.
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Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
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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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Some things come with their own punishments.
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A political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
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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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I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.
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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?
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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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Anything’s possible in Human Nature …Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
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It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened.
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The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or think they have) gained.
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Human rights are fundamental rights, they are the minimum, the very least we demand. Too often, they become the goal itself. What should be the minimum becomes the maximum – all we are supposed to expect – but human rights aren’t enough. The goal is, and must always be, justice.
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That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
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