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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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Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.
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Chance Empathy Fight Important Peace Quality
Things can change in a day.
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Change One Liner
NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.
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Coporate Goodness Politics Space Work World
Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
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Difference One Liner Sick Terrorism
Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.
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Clothes Color Death People
People rarely win wars, governments rarely lose them. People get killed. Governments moult and regroup, hydra-headed. They use flags first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and smother thought, and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury their willing dead.
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Death Kill Lose Mindset People War Willing Win
Excitement always leads to tears.
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Destination Excitement One Liner Path Tears
Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.
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Breathe Herself Journey Myself Possible Quiet World
I am a woman who is a granddaughter of a lady who used to be beaten on the head by her husband, of a mother who went through hell because she was divorced and had to bring up these kids. And I can take 10 men out to lunch and pay the bill, and nobody even thinks twice about it. So don’t mess with me.
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Divorce Hell Husband Injustice Mess Mom Myself Oppression Pay Price Violence Woman
The world’s ‘freeest’ country has the highest number in prison.
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Country Freedom Prison World
Some things come with their own punishments.
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Karma One Liner Punishment Reality Wisdom
The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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Beyond Life Way World
It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened.
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Impossible Inspirational Thinking Time
Power is fortified not just by what it destroys, but also by what it creates. Not just by what it takes, but also by what it gives. And powerlessness reaffirmed not just by the helplessness of those who have lost, but also by the gratitude of those who have (or think they have) gained.
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Creation Destroy Gratitude Help Lost Power Thinking
Money need not be our only reward.
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Money Need One Liner Ourselves Reward
Literature is the opposite of a nuclear bomb.
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Literature Opposite Weapon

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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