"We are a people that let the small things just go by because it's a little uncomfortable and nobody wants to ruffle a feather. If you're quiet and you're watching it, you're just as much at fault as the person there. You're watching a victim be berated and you're standing by, knowing that feeling in your gut that it's wrong. Now you have a tool in order to change that."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

#People Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Quiet Quotes

“No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.”
“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.”

Source : "Why land rights for indigenous peoples could be the answer to climate change" by Bruce Parry, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2016.
“Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is at any given moment.”
“Thereâ€™s no question in my mind: not only am I going to be able to make it through 16 games, Iâ€™ll make it through another five years,”
“We all need to have dreams. The question is, does the dream control you or do you control the dream?”

Source : Robin Jones Gunn (2009). “Christy Miller Collection”, p.90, Multnomah
“My intuition never fails me, it is I who fail when I do not listen to it.”
“What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existence.”
“In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day, and we should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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