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The overarching factor to me is if we can’t be kind to each other, we won’t be kind to the planet.

Bob Brown

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
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.
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Amount Campaigns Groups Tasmania
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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.
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Children Dollar Money Sunken War
Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that’s where our investment should be going as well.
BOB BROWN

Environmental Innovation Technology
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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Action Democracy Earth
I have never met a person in whom I did not see myself reflected.
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Mets Persons Reflected
The future will either be green or not at all.
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Environmental Future Green
Whereas our common past, out of Africa, saw a global diaspora of humankind, our common future depends on a global coming together and consensus, resulting in a more equitable distribution of the Earth’s largesse.
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Age Earth Past Resulting Together
One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance.
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Endurance Google Records
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.
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Reaction Spontaneous States Wealth
In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.
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Environmental People Positive
I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
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Community Democracy Depth
Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.
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Chosen Country Learning Money
When we imagine the world a century from now, when we look our great grandchildren in the eye and see them smiling back at us because they know we cared for them, we smile too!
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Century Grandchildren Great Smile
There’s a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don’t.
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Be Good Politically Presumption
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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Culture Diversity Imagination Nation Positive

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