If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

#710

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

#709

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.

#708

Henry David Thoreau • Guy de Maupassant • Anna Eleanor Roosevelt • Voltaire • Confucius • Mike Monteiro • Friedrich Nietzsche • Kurt D. Cobain • Steven Wright • Theodor Seuss Geisel • Albert Einstein • anonymous • Martin Luther King Jr. • Marshall McLuhan • Zig Ziglar • Elwyn Brooks White • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra • Kahlil Gibran • John Maeda • Toni Morrison • Annie Proulx • Oscar Wilde • Mahatma Gandhi • Rabindranath Tagore

Adrienne Rich

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