"Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible."

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Source : "Wall Street Protests: Cash-Roots" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. October 6, 2011.

Jill Lepore

#Roots Quotes #Grass Quotes #Century Quotes

“In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.”

Source : Melissa Bank (2005). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.115, Penguin UK
“Old pain doesn't completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It stays with you, it lives in the cracks of your soul, waiting for moments when you feel true pain”
“You, just as you are, and your life here, right now, are all there is and all you need to know. You don't have to do anything special. Mostly, you have to be open to meeting face to face, and even dancing with, the truth that pertains to your life right now. You have to find a way to collect your fractured pieces, examine them, and the accept them as part of who you are. Spiritual practice is about transformation, but it's also, and more importantly, about working with what is.”
“The coming together of like-minded individuals through action is what's needed to see wide spread change for us, our planet and its creatures.”
“Well, we'll know better next time.”
“Heckling is an act of cowardice. If you want to speak, get up in front of the microphone and speak, don't sit in the dark hiding. It's easy to hide and shout and waste people's time.”
“Inside you thereâ€™s an artist you donâ€™t know aboutâ€¦ say yes quickly, if you know, if youâ€™ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.”
“Thou art an eagle, thou doest belong to the sky and not to the earth, stretch forth thy wings and fly.”

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