"A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you."

-- Marian Wright Edelman

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“To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.”
“I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.”
“I think consumerism breeds dissatisfaction, and I think that the advertisers play to that. So I cannot be comfortable with that. On the other hand, the cornucopia of products and innovation - I love Apple, for example. That's a temple of consumerism in many ways.”

Source : "Q&A: John Elkington". Interview with Jessie Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. November 2008.
“I wrote these songs for a dying planet, I'm sorry, but I'm telling the truth.”

Source : Song: Song For A Dying Planet, Album: Songs for a Dying Planet, 1992
“If the choice is between doing something supercool and having no one hear it and doing something equally cool and tricking people into putting it on the radio, I don't think the second option is some big sellout.”
“I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.”
“There is nothing the Church can do except try to educate people to become good consumers.”
“In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.”

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