"We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations."

-- Vandana Shiva

#Struggle Quotes #Our Generation Quotes #Generations Quotes

“Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place in which you can listen to the voice of the One who calls you the beloved. To pray is to listen to the One who calls you 'my beloved daughter,' 'my beloved son,' 'my beloved child.' To pray is to let that voice speak to the center of your being, to your guts, and let that voice resound in your whole being.”
“The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer...form the great body of the people of the United States they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What struck me whenever I visited a farm was how much more sophisticated was the life the animals were capable of living than was assumed by those exploiting them. The more we are willing to see about their lives, the more we will see. Humans seem to take perverse pleasure in attributing stupidity to animals when it is almost always entirely a question of human ignorance.”

Source : Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (2010). “The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food”, p.96, W. W. Norton & Company
“There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.”
“A community that learns together excels together. We need to form communities that learn together.”
“When life is suddenly more serious more of the time, there is also more need for it to be fun at least some of the time. That's why my family will be at a college football game this weekend. We need it. And deserve it, too. Not like a New York fireman deserves it. Or a medic at the Pentagon. But enough.”
“The way to success is strategically along the way of least expectation and tactically along the line of least resistance.”
“You don't like to have people believing that you're doing the wrong thing which is why we're trying to make sure that people recognise that we do the right thing.”

Source : Source: www.sbs.com.au

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