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We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.

Bob Brown

I didn’t want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.
BOB BROWN

Absorber Shock Want
$Bob Brown Quote - With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.$

With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed child on the planet could be well fed, have clean water and sanitation and a local school to go to.
BOB BROWN

Children Dollar Money Sunken War
I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there’s hope for many other changes.
BOB BROWN

Changed Homosexually Lifetime Optimistic Repression
The future will either be green or not at all.
BOB BROWN

Environmental Future Green
Our bodies and our minds are fashioned by it. Our hearts resonate with it. There will be little joy for the human spirit if we destroy the natural fabric of Earth with nothing left to do but go shopping.
BOB BROWN

Bodies Fashion Left Resonate Shopping
Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world’s future.
BOB BROWN

Future Gun Life Real Security
I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
BOB BROWN

Mets Persons Reflected
Wilderness has become one of the world’s fastest disappearing resources, and it is non-renewable.
BOB BROWN

Gold Humanity Oil Renewable Resources
We are all born bonded to nature; that’s why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.
BOB BROWN

Flower Forests Wall
We calculate the amount spent [by Brethren and other anti- Green groups] was between $500,000 and $1 million – that’s a huge amount for a state election campaign in Tasmania.
BOB BROWN

Amount Campaigns Groups Tasmania
As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.
BOB BROWN

Generations Goal Green
So far as we know, Earth is the only planet which supports life, and it is the only planet on which we can survive.
BOB BROWN

Eye Grandchildren Heart
The Greens will continue to champion a fairer society rather than simply the economy and to champion the parliament rather than simply the stock exchange .
BOB BROWN

Ambition Champion Economics
I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn’t talk about himself very much.
BOB BROWN

Difficult Kids Thinking
The government’s living in its own cloud cuckoo land and it’s a cloud of greenhouse gases.
BOB BROWN

Clouds Government Land
Globally the Greens have arisen like a spontaneous combustion, a reaction to the narrow-minded state-backed exploitation of resources and wealth for a few at the expense of the many.
BOB BROWN

Reaction Spontaneous States Wealth

We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.

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We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation which has moved beyond the basics of literacy and numeracy and which wants to develop a learning culture.

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