"The thing that our system is designed to do is keep us alone and isolated in our little consumer bubble. And the most revolutionary act of all might be finding a community of like-minded people where you can talk about these issues and figure out what to do together."

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Avi Lewis

#Issues Quotes #People Quotes #Community Quotes

“And if you worry that not finishing the food on your plate is a slap in the face of all the hungry people everywhere, you are not living in reality. The truth is that you either throw the food out or you throw it in, but either way it turns to waste. World hunger will not be solved by finishing the garlic mashed potatoes on your plate.”
“Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult.”
“The wages of sin are an expensive infection.”
“The film Black Hawk Down paints the Somali people as wild savages.”
“Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God, and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.”
“The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've never fabricated or plagiarized a story. People who know me know I didn't do this.”
“I give myself this advice: Do not fear truth, let it be ever so contrary to inclination and feeling. Never give up the search after it; and let me take courage, and try from the bottom of my heart to do that which I believe truth dictates, if it lead me to be a Quaker or not”

Source : Elizabeth Gurney Fry (1847). “Memoir of the Life of Elizabeth Fry: With Extracts from Her Letters and Journal”, p.86
“I believe how I act today will affect how I am tomorrow.”

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