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

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

Adrienne Rich

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