Lee Maracle famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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There is a direct connection between violence against the Earth and violence against women.
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I think the arts has great potential to create citizens. Citizenship is about the direction your imagination travels. We can't plan or calculate or examine citizenship; it's an imagined thing. Community is an imagined thing. And if your imagination isn't working - and, of course, in oppressed people that's the first thing that goes - you can't imagine anything better. Once you can imagine something different, something better, then you're on your way.
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Where do you begin telling someone their world is not the only one?
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On the one hand, the reality is dire, on the other, reality is always false, it is a mask covering what is coming up underneath.
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My activism has to do with my conscience; I cannot let certain things slide without doing something. My public speaking is part of an art form that is cultural.
-- Lee Maracle
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Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
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In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in the universe.
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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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John Dewey reminded us that the value of what students do 'resides in its connection with a stimulation of greater thoughtfulness, not in the greater strain it imposes.
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I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter.
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But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.
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I can't remember any text of mine where I said that one should fight Hitler without violence; I'm not an idiot.
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It is the quietest and meekest people who are often capable of the most sudden and unexpected violences for the reason that when their control does snap, it goes entirely. (Hercule Poirot)
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Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.
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I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.
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