"The world you live in is not a……" — Rebecca Solnit
"The world you live in is not a given; much of what is best in it has been built through the struggles of passionate activists over the last centuries. They won us many freedoms and protected many beauties. Count those gifts among your growing heap."
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127 Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
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The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend…
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The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other…
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How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
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I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE…
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Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of…
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Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall,…
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For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that…
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The object we call a book is not the real book, but its seed or potential, like a music score.…
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I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge…
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Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production-oriented society, and doing nothing is hard to do. It's…
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Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
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When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed…
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A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the…
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Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences…
— Bill Gates
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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.
— Studs Terkel
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From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of…
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Grassroots groups challenge the "business-as-usual" environmentalism that is generally practiced by the more privileged wildlife-and conservation-oriented groups. The focus of…
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Smoking cigarettes seems to alarm peace activists much more than voting for Reagan does.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The bigotry is so virulent that it may be time to make Christians a protected class. Right now 'Christo-phobia' and…
— E.W. Jackson
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Breast feeding activists plan to descend on Washington for a public breast feeding demonstration. Also descending on Washington, thousands of…
— Conan O'Brien
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I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India…
— Rachel Weisz
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