Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
ARUNDHATI ROYTo annihilate indigenous populations eventually paves the way to our own annihilation. They are the only people who practice sustainable living. We think they are relics of the past, but they may be the gatekeepers to our future.
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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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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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Anything’s possible in Human Nature …Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
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Change is one thing. Acceptance is another.
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Money need not be our only reward.
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Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.
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Use your art to fight.
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NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.
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Excitement always leads to tears.
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The revolution cannot be funded. It’s not the imagination of trusts and foundations that’s going to bring real change.
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He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.
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States have invested themselves with the right to legitimise violence – so who gets criminalised and delegitimised? Only – or well that’s excessive – usually, the resistance.
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The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.
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What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.
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