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

Adrienne Rich

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