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Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people’s brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.

Arundhati Roy

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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Angry Commitment Equality Intensity Justice
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
Things can change in a day.
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Change One Liner
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
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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Intellectual Intelligence Worth
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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Destruction Government Kind Need Politics Resistance World
The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.
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Innocent Politics Quiet Responsibility See Trouble Yourself
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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Feeling Shame Slave Thinking
It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened.
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Impossible Inspirational Thinking Time
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
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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Democracy Election Freedom Independence Problem
If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?
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Count Dreams Happiness
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
The trouble is that once you see it, you can’t unsee it. And once you’ve seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There’s no innocence. Either way, you’re accountable.
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Innocent Politics Quiet Responsibility See Trouble Yourself
How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain’s festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international con�icts of today.
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Care Civilization Gift Power Present World
Use your art to fight.
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Art Fight One Liner

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