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“Courage is just a reaction to fear. You cannot show courage without first feeling fear.” “I understand that,” Guðvarr said. “But cowardice is also a reaction to fear. It is the not running away part that I still struggle with.”
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“When we condemn men--corporate employees and ngo functionaries, police, soldiers--for taking advantage of hungry women and children, we stay within the bounds of conventional morality. When we ask why women and children are made hungry in the first place, why their economies or societies have collapsed, why they are abjectly dependent on food aid or why corporate mercenaries are at large in their countries, we risk departing from the conventional by rejecting the camouflaging power of scale, and holding the larger crimes to be as wicked as the smaller ones.
D.A. Clarke, Resisting the New Sexual World order”
Rebecca Whisnant, Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography

Neil Peart
“Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand.”
Neil Peart

Vandana Shiva
“Staying home is an ecological imperative, an ethical imperative. It is also a joyful option. It is the practice of oikonomia as the art of living. It is earth democracy in action, cultivating and expanding the freedoms of all beings.”
Vandana Shiva, Oneness vs The 1%: Shattering Illusions, Seeding Freedom

Georgia   Scott
“[Greens] don't come through the back door the same as other groceries. They don't cower at the bottom of paper bags marked 'Liberty.' They wave over the top. They don't stop to be checked off the receipt. They spill out onto the counter. No going onto shelves with cans in orderly lines like school children waiting for recess. No waiting, sometimes for years beyond the blue sell by date, to be picked up and taken from the shelf. Greens don't stack or stand at attention. They aren't peas to be pushed around. Cans can't contain them. Boxed in they would burst free. Greens are wild. Plunging them into a pot took some doing. Only lobsters fight more. Either way, you have to use your hands. Then, retrieving them requires the longest of my mother's wooden spoons, the one with the burnt end. Swept onto a plate like the seaweed after a storm, greens sit tall, dark, and proud.”
Georgia Scott, American Girl: Memories That Made Me

Erich Fromm
“If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.”
Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

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