History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches. — Frances Moore Lappé History Copy Share Image
Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want. — Frances Moore Lappé Birthday Copy Share Image
We evolved to be problem-solvers, to create, to be choosers of our own future! — Frances Moore Lappé Future Copy Share Image
I like to think of power back in its Latin root, its meaning comes from posse - to be able. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action. — Frances Moore Lappé Action Copy Share Image
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
How we frame the world - how we talk about it and define it - affects how we see things and how… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Old models of farming with chemicals and credit mostly favored privileged men. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Our food system takes abundant grain,which people can't afford,and shrinks it into meat,which better-off people will pay for. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Fear doesn't necessarily mean that we have to stop. It doesn't mean that we are failures. It doesn't mean that we are… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death… — Frances Moore Lappé Community Copy Share Image
Imagine sitting down to an eight ounce steak, and then, imagine the room filled wit 45 to 50 people with empty bowls...For… — Frances Moore Lappé Animal Copy Share Image
No society has fulfilled its democratic promise if people go hungry... If some go without food they have surely been deprived of… — Frances Moore Lappé Democracy Copy Share Image
I had the realization that hunger is not caused by scarcity of food, it is caused by the production system and an… — Frances Moore Lappé Absence Copy Share Image
What we need to get right is not focusing on the fear associated with quantity - not enough, scarcity, and lack -… — Frances Moore Lappé Connectedness Copy Share Image
I'm neither an optimist nor a pessimist. I am a dyed-in-the-woo l possibilist! By this, I mean with an eco-mind, we see… — Frances Moore Lappé Change Copy Share Image
What gave her [Diane Wilson] the courage? If you look at someone like Diane, it's easy to say, well I could never… — Frances Moore Lappé Courage Copy Share Image
I don't rule anything out, and I couldn't underscore more the importance of what YES! is doing to show that there are… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that… — Frances Moore Lappé Agriculture Copy Share Image
What we do in the book my daughter Anna and I wrote, Hope's Edge, is to give people a glimpse of food… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound… — Frances Moore Lappé Anatomy Copy Share Image
I learned this [ that fear doesn't have to stop me] when my world came apart. I was living a life-long dream… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
My path has not been smooth. But the great thing about getting to be an elder is that you can look back… — Frances Moore Lappé Aging Copy Share Image
“Luxury as beauty" has nothing to do with a particular place or an object's price tag. It is seeing with eyes for… — Frances Moore Lappé Beauty Copy Share Image
I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
I understand, of course, that grain-fed meat is not the cause of the world hunger problem-and eating some of it doesn't directly… — Frances Moore Lappé Balance Copy Share Image
I get goose-bumps when you talk about Diane Wilson. Who knows where she found that courage? When she was a child, she… — Frances Moore Lappé Autism Copy Share Image
Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity. — Frances Moore Lappé Culture Copy Share Image
Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices. — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
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