Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They’re usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there’s the business of war.
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The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.
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Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
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Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
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As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I’ve spent my whole life fighting tradition. There’s no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.
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Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.
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Anything’s possible in Human Nature …Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
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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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What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.
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You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, because I realize that the biggest risk that many of us run is beginning to get inured to the horrors.
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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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We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.
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The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market has reduced them to commodities available on sale to the highest bidder.
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Excitement always leads to tears.
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Some things come with their own punishments.
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Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.
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