"Globalization not only has lost its promise but it is embittering many. The forces representing human solidarity and community have no choice but to step in quickly to convince the disenchanted masses that, indeed, as the banner of World Social Forum in Porto Alegre proclaims, “Another world is possible.”"

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Source : Walden Bello's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2003.

Walden Bello

#Choices Quotes #Community Quotes #Promise Quotes

“My workday is non-stop break-neck high stakes and high pressure. Every day.”

Source : Source: www.usatoday.com
“The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is the special portal to such sights.”
“And I see the - you know, when I go to the juvenile detention centers and prisons, I see people who can't read now. And I know that when they leave those prisons and those detention centers, they're not going to be able to make it in our society.”
“If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.”

Source : "Adventures In Gnarly Computation". www.rudyrucker.com. October 2005.
“History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do.”
“I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.”
“I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.”
“I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.”

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