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Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

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The will to act is a renewable resource.
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Act Renewable Resource Willing
As long as the government’s actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.
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Account Action Government People Transparent
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
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Argument Fact Law Side Yourself
Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature.
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Collection Combination Force Nature Technology
Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.
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Earth Freedom Infrastructure Limitation
Mother Nature does not do bailouts.
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Earth Mom Nature
Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.
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Act Climate Dirty Disturb Energy Quick Weather
We can believe in the future and work to achieve it and preserve it, or we can whirl blindly on, behaving as if one day there will be no children to inherit our legacy. The choice is ours; the earth is in balance.
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Achievement Balance Ourselves Believe Children Choice Earth Future Inheritance Work
The global environment crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.
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Children Diminish Earth Environment Future Global Rain Reality
The Congress is virtually incapable of passing any reforms unless they first get permission from the powerful special interests who are most affected by the proposal.
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Ability Affect Interest Powerful Virtual
Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.
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Challenge Energy Freedom Nation
The ‘well-informed citizenry is in danger of becoming the ‘well-amused audience’.
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Audience Dangerous Information
Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.
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Civilization Deep Drive Earth Expansion Nature Ourselves Surface Willing
Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any … people of any religious faith in this country.
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Atheist Country Faith People Religious Right
Science is warning us that if we do not quickly reduce the global warming pollution that is trapping so much of the heat our planet normally radiates back out of the atmosphere, we are in danger of creating a permanent ‘carbon summer’.
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Creation Dangerous Global Nature Quick Science Warning
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
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Alive Creative Emergency Generation Mission Planet Way
The moral imperative to make big changes is inescapable…that what we take for granted may not be here for our children
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Big Change Children Escape Moral Ourselves
When it comes to climate, we can all make a big difference.
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Change Climate Difference Togetherness
In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.
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Climate Crisis Democracy Solve
The planet is in distress and all of the attention is on Paris Hilton.
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Attention Planet
I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.
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Horizon Myself See Try
Each and every one of us can make changes in the way we live our lives and become part of the solution [to climate change]
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Change Each Other Live Solution Way
It is just human nature to take time to connect the dots, I know that. But I also know that there can be a day of reckoning when you wish you had connected the dots more quickly.
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Connection Destruction Human Nature Quick Yourself
When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
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Division Fear Hate Replacement Result
CO2 is the exhaling breath of our civilization, literally… Changing that pattern requires a scope, a scale, a speed of change that is beyond what we have done in the past.
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Beyond Breathe Change Civilization Ourselves Past
Every nation has a moral obligation to safeguard the future.
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Future Moral Myself Nation Obligation Safety
I don’t really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.
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Issue Moral Myself Politics Problem

Civil disobedience has an honourable history, and when the urgency and moral clarity cross a certain threshold, then I think that civil disobedience is quite understandable, and it has a role to play.

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