That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.
ARUNDHATI ROYThe people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.
More Arundhati Roy Quotes
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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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The American way of life is not sustainable. It doesn’t acknowledge that there is a world beyond America.
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Anything’s possible in Human Nature …Love. Madness. Hope. Infinite joy.
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But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And 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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I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a ‘natural ally’ of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.
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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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Use your art to fight.
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Money need not be our only reward.
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It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened.
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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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Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communal killers, mass murderers, corporate scamsters, looters, rapists, and those who prey on the poorest of the poor, roam free.
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I could weep for a river-valley, and I have. But for a country? Oh man, I don’t know.
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When people say “the people” or “the public” as though it’s the final repository of all morality, I sometimes flinch.
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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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Even capitalists must surely admit, that intellectually at least, socialism is a worthy opponent. It imparts intelligence even to its adversaries.
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