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Ai-jen Poo18 quotes“If we figure out the supports and infrastructure to make all of that possible – and it is completely within reach.”
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Everyday people and everyday acts of courage eventually change everything.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo It’s precisely the people who are considered the least ‘likely’ leaders who end up inspiring others the most.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo Movements of people create change – not just any one person or organization, but when lots of people are in motion around a shared vision.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo Living longer is about loving longer, learning longer, teaching longer, connecting longer.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo One thing I’ve learned, in the face of all kinds of indignities, domestic workers take so much pride in their work and love the children they care for.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce… and yet we’re still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo So many things that are fundamental to a healthy democracy, are under attack. So I think, in general we’ve got a lot of work to do.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo And valuing that which has been taken for granted is something that I’ve always instinctually known is the key to the kind of society I want to live in and raise my children in.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo And we live longer. Our stuff is not “special interest” stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo I’ve always believed it’s important to make the invisible visible.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo Domestic employees are at the whim of their employers.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo An economy that we need that works for everyone. Where everyone works, everyone counts and everyone contributes.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo Everything that we believe in and count on is really in question right now. Our safety net, public education, housing, health care.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo It really moved the dial politically. That’s what is needed in the women’s movement – a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.
Ai-jen PooAi-jen Poo I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to break through, and we are going to create a new economy.
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When you completely extract yourself from anything familiar.
Alan PalomoAlan Palomo I think the Internet has a way of coaching you into this state of mind where you think that every step you make needs to completely supersede the last.
Alan PalomoAlan Palomo This submission to the threshold of a cross is at the very root of our following Jesus; it changes the game completely.
Alan HirschAlan Hirsch And I realized that informed criticism has completely been done in by the web.
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Alain RobertAlain Robert Guys, I don’t want to tell you half-truths, unless they’re completely accurate.
Alain VigneaultAlain Vigneault Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
Alain de BottonAlain de Botton Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with the real of history.
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