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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 Brown

Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
BOB BROWN

Gold Humanity Oil Renewable Resources
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.
BOB BROWN

Community Democracy Depth
I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
BOB BROWN

Dies Green Long
For breakfast larger cups are used, and they’re more than half filled with cream. This cafe con leite doesn’t re-quire so much sugar as cafe preto-black coffee.
BOB BROWN

Black Breakfast Coffee Cream Filled
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
BOB BROWN

Action Democracy Earth
When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!
BOB BROWN

Century Grandchildren Great Smile
We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million – that’s a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.
BOB BROWN

Amount Campaigns Groups Tasmania
The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.
BOB BROWN

Be Kind Planets Reality
Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
BOB BROWN

Reaction Spontaneous States Wealth
As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
BOB BROWN

Generations Goal Green
There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
BOB BROWN

Be Good Politically Presumption
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.
BOB BROWN

Age Billion News Voters
Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth’s largesse.
BOB BROWN

Age Earth Past Resulting Together
Behind every successful man there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.
BOB BROWN

Inspirational Men Success
I am not a conventionally religious man, but in the wilderness I have come closest to finding myself and knowing the universe and accepting God – by which I mean accepting all that I don’t know.
BOB BROWN

God Mean Men Religious
So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive.
BOB BROWN

Eye Grandchildren Heart

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.

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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.

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