I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there’s hope for many other changes.
BOB BROWNAs a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
More Bob Brown Quotes
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Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet’s 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
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Yet unlike oil, gold or woodchips, it is essential to the wellbeing of humanity. We are made of it and fashioned by it…our psychological beings resonate with it.
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Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping.
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The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?
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The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .
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There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
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I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world’s future.
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The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
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I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
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We people of the Earth exist because our potential was there in the Big Bang, 13.7 billion years ago, as the universe exploded into being.
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
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As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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