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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.

Arundhati Roy

Excitement always leads to tears.
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Destination Excitement One Liner Path Tears
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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Heart Politics Struggle Woman
Use your art to fight.
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Art Fight One Liner
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
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
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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Dangerous Time Worst
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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Heart Lose Politics Remember Struggle Violence Vision Woman
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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Corruption Death Freedom Injustice Justice Mindset Nation Poor Prison Silence Talk Writing
Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.
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Human Integrity Project Right
Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.
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Bone Break Constitution Ordinary Story
At a time when opportunism is everything, when hope seems lost, when everything boils down to a cynical business deal, we must find the courage to dream. To reclaim romance. The romance of believing in justice, in freedom, and in dignity. For everybody.
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Believe Courage Dignity Dreams Freedom Hope Justice Lost Opportunity Romance Time
If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?
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Count Dreams Happiness
Some things come with their own punishments.
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Karma One Liner Punishment Reality Wisdom
Terrorism is the symptom, not the disease.
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Difference One Liner Sick Terrorism
The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.
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Creation Oneself People Place
Making bombs will only destroy us. It doesn’t matter whether we use them or not. They will destroy us either way.
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Destroy Destruction Weapon

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