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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting. Wangari Maathai
Angry Me Culture Country Trees Everyone General No-One Because Makes Cut Cutting Planting
We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment. Wangari Maathai
Our Destroy Promote Environment Development Does Need
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace. Wangari Maathai
Environmental Today Relationship Democracy Peace Rights Conflict Few Human Rights Resources See Seem Environment Almost Between Obvious Decades May Human Connection
I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.' Wavy Gravy
Time You Promises Power President Press Release Out Running City Crowd Arena Nobody Printed Campaign Handed Up Convention Republican Them Taxes Much Kansas Kansas City Should Working Your Washington Keeps
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few. Wendell Phillips
Liberty Power Few Stealing Price Eternal Eternal Vigilance Vigilance Many Ever
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator. Wendell Phillips
Truth Truth Is Disposition Filtered Moods Absolute Through Opinion Blood Forever Spectator
Two kinds of men generally best succeed in political life; men of no principle, but of great talent; and men of no talent, but of one principle - that of obedience to their superiors. Wendell Phillips
Life Best Great Obedience Political Men Kinds No Talent Generally Talent Great Talent Principle Political Life Succeed Two
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. Wendell Phillips
Today Government Business Fear Big Big Business Big Government
You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency. Wendell Phillips
Truth Hope You Presidency Seventy Statesman Given He Always Up Get American After Turned
The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth. Wendell Phillips
People Wealth Power Noble Protest Labor Labor Movement American Just Movement Against American People Means Last Incorporated
The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth. Wilfred Grenfell
Service Pay Others Our Earth Render Rent Room
We have become the charnel house of the Western World. William Kunstler
World Become House Western Western World
We have a shared destiny, a shared responsibility to save the world from those who attempt to destroy it. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
World Responsibility Save The World Those Destiny Destroy Attempt Shared Who Save
We talk of a rainbow nation - in a country that remains dichotomized between black and white. We must acknowledge that the rainbow, in fact, is still a dream. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Black Black And White Country Nation White Dream Must Fact Remains Between Talk Still In Fact Acknowledge Rainbow
I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Best Marriage Married Had Ever
I never talk about my private life. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
Life About Never Talk Private Private Life
I don't want a grand villa in a rich suburb alongside white people where many of my former comrades choose to live. I would never betray my roots in that way. Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
People Comrades Rich White Live Way Would Betray Never Alongside Where Want Grand Suburb Former Roots Choose Many Villa
If we moved from industrialized agriculture to re-localized organic agriculture, we could sequester about one quarter of the carbon moving into the air and destroying our glaciers, oceans, forests and lands. Winona LaDuke
Agriculture Organic Our Air Destroying About Could Glaciers Industrialized Quarter Oceans Forests Moved Moving Lands Carbon
What we all need to do is find the wellspring that keeps us going, that gives us the strength and patience to keep up this struggle for a long time. Winona LaDuke
Time Strength Patience Struggle Long Long Time Find Gives Wellspring Up Going Us Keep Keeps Need
I am always personalizing tees to fit my personality, cutting off rocker shirts, debunking the mold of what traditional 'work wear' means, and always wearing my cause. Yael Cohen
Work Personality Cause Wear Wearing Always Am Traditional Rocker Off Fit Shirts Cutting Means Mold
I never intended on starting a charity; I never intended on cancer, health, and wellness becoming my life. Yael Cohen
Life Health Wellness Charity Cancer My Life Never Becoming Intended Starting
Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land. Zainab Salbi
You Sometimes Will Knowing Without Cliff Off Jump Just Where Land
There is no way to peace; peace is the way. A. J. Muste
Peace Way
I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system. A. Philip Randolph
Myself Youth Black Black And White White Aid Jim Jim Crow Pledge System Crow Both Counsel Openly Any Personally Conscription
Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship. A. Philip Randolph
Freedom Relationship Justice Struggle Political Final Evolving Must Religious Given Economic Fact Higher Higher Levels Never Continuing Continuous Human Process Social Levels
Freedom is never granted; it is won. A. Philip Randolph
Freedom Never Won Granted
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