- “A colonial economy by definition is a dependent economy; a centralized, lopsided, and distorted economy. And as we have seen, an intensely vulnerable economy.”
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Naomi Klein,
On Fire: The Case for the Green New Deal
- Part 1. A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. Albert Einstein
- “Maumivu ya matatizo ya yule aliyekukosea hayana tofauti na maumivu ya matatizo ya wewe uliyekosewa. Adui yako (kwa mfano) akifiwa na mke aliyempenda sana, atajisikia vibaya kama utakavyojisikia vibaya kufiwa na mke uliyempenda sana. Kuwa na huruma kwa waliokukosea, wakati wa shida.”
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Enock Maregesi
- “La bondad es divinidad”
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Abhijit Naskar
- “El instante más miserable, furioso y horrible es cuando veo a través de mi espíritu humano las crueles acciones que he cometido y reflexiono sobre mi propio destino”
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Atsushi Nakajima,
El poeta que rugió a la luna y se convirtió en tigre
- “Ah! Music is the most beautiful and universal language of humanity because it can touch and arouse every emotion in the soul.”
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Debasish Mridha
- “One only understands the things that one tames,” said the fox. “Men haveno more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at theshops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and somen have no friends any more. If you want a friend, tame me. . .”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
The Little Prince
- “Human colour is the colour I’m truly interested in, the colour of your humanity. May the size of your heart and the depth of your soul be your currency. Welcome aboard my Good Ship. Let us sail to the colourful island of mixed identity.”SHADE” – Salena Godden”
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Salena Godden
- “We’re all monsters. The world won’t let us survive otherwise. But we’re not dispassionate. However damaged, we still have hearts.”
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Gaja J. Kos,
Emergence
- “Being homosexual is no more abnormal than being lefthanded.”
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Abhijit Naskar,
Either Civilized or Phobic: A Treatise on Homosexuality
- “I hate to complain…No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches.”
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Abigail Adams
- One person of integrity can make a difference. Elie Wiesel
- “There is nothing sane, merciful, heroic, devout, redemptive, wise, holy, loving, peaceful, joyous, righteous, gracious, remotely spiritual, or worthy of praise where mass murder is concerned. We have been in this world long enough to know that by now and to understand that nonviolent conflict resolution informed by mutual compassion is the far better option.”
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Aberjhani,
Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays
- “It is not by great acts but by small failures that freedom dies. The sense of justice dies slowly in a people. They grow used to the unthinkable,and sometimes they may look back and even wonder when things changed. Theywill not find a day or a time or a place. Justice and liberty die quietly, because men first learnto ignore injustice and then no longer recognize it.”
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Charles Morgan
- “To recognize diversity is science, to celebrate it is humanity.”
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Abhijit Naskar,
Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity
- “I am Forest Man!”
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Steven Magee
- “To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn’t just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it’s an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.”[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]”
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David McCullough
- “She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,–and there was no answer one could make her–there seemed to be no forgiveness for such a transgression.And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon the dark paths of excessive cruelty and of excessive devotion. And what is the pursuit of truth, after all?”
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Joseph Conrad,
Lord Jim
- “The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.”
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Robert Buettner,
Overkill
- “If you treat people right they will treat you right … ninety percent of the time.”
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “We often forget our human connectedness. Throughout my life, I have felt the greatest beauty lies in this connection. It has been in the deepest connections with others that I have experienced the greatest degree of learning, healing and transformation. This connection is a powerful thing, with the ability to transform lives, and ultimately transform human experience.”
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Kristi Bowman,
Journey to One: A Woman’s Story of Emotional Healing and Spiritual Awakening
- “Yes, the human race is a small species in an infinite universe filled with many other planets and many other things, but though small; this race is bearer of very great and big things: Destiny, Virtue, Hope, Love… and that’s what makes this species different. That’s what makes this species very shiny and very visible and very important, in a whole, whole, big, big, vast, expanding universe!”
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C. JoyBell C.
- “He called you beautiful, for a black girl and you kissed him. It would not be the last time someone would pay you a provisional compliment, nor the last time you accept it. Back then, you had not yet realized, that those who view your beauty conditionally, undoubtedly felt the same towards your humanity.”
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Rafeif Ismail,
Meet Me at the Intersection
- Humanity is the refuse of spirit. James Lendall Basford
- “There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there’s also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf — seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.”
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George Saunders,
Congratulations, by the way
- To be a man is to feel that one’s own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- “As we were leaving the camp, I wondered whether refugee and IDP camps are a sign of compassion towards displaced people, or are they signs of how far humans have gone in causing harm to each other?”
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Louis Yako
- “What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?”
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Aberjhani,
Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
- To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility. Martha Nussbaum
- There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher. Victor Hugo