Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion. — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
The transformation of forests into deserts, fertile earth into sunbaked concrete, and running rivers into silted floodwaters show that only through care for the environment can the livelihoods of those most dependent on it be sustained. We cannot allow economic… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
I belong to the initiators of the... and we had repeatedly also asked the dismantling of the SS-20 but we did not connect them… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top. — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal… — Petra Kelly Copy Share
We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands. It is as simple as that. It is… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of the human… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual analyses that… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
I have hope for the world, although it is ten minutes before Doomsday. Women all over the world are rising up and infusing the… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
