"I am interested in the political economy of institutional power relationships in transition. The question is one of "reconstructive" communities as a cultural, as well as a political, fact: how geographic communities are structured to move in the direction of the next vision, along with the question of how a larger system - given the power and cultural relationships - can move toward managing the connections between the developing communities. There are many, many hard questions here - including, obviously, ones related to ecological sustainability and climate change."

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Gar Alperovitz

#Moving Quotes #Community Quotes #Political Quotes

“Make sure your heart is singing right until the day it stops.”

Source : Song: Long Island Blues, 2009
“The leader personifies the certitude of the creed and the defiance and grandeur of power. He articulates and justifies the resentment damned up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breath-taking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages a world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.”
“With one eye on today's blessings you will have more staying power for the distant goal.”
“Compression is a necessary evil. The artists I know want to sound competitive. You don't want your track to sound quieter or wimpier by comparison. We've raised the bar and you can't really step back.”
“Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?”

Source : Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.72, Basic Books
“What can I do but bring forth the talent that God gave me? That's all I wanted to do. To share the love and gift of entertainment. That's all I want to do. I don't want to hurt anybody.”
“Hardly anybody thinks about typing in their social security number as ID. Hardly anybody pays attention to the myriad of security cameras. There isn't anybody that worked on this show that doesn't look at security cameras differently than when they started.”
“The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.”

Source : "Jerry Falwell: An Unauthorized Profile". Book by William R. Goodman Jr.; James J. H. Price, 1981.

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