empowerment & inner transformation…
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"Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race." - Mary McLeod Bethune *** "I would like to stress the importance of girls' education and its crucial impact on all aspects of human development. All the... Continue Reading →
“One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.” - Proverb quotes (Downloaded from Thinkexist)
"When asked his nationality, Socrates is said to have replied that he was not only an Athenian but also a citizen of the world. His remark shows us the kind of philanthropic spirit that, transcending narrows bounds of nation, race and region, regards the whole world as its home. This attitude should be at the... Continue Reading →
"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied... but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy... Continue Reading →
“The current state of the news media is partially to blame for the public’s general lack of information vital for responsible citizenship in a democracy. The news media has become an aspect of show business, offering merely infotainment. It has evolved into an entity that tends to function as a public relations agency for wealthy... Continue Reading →
“Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.” - William Somerset Maugham * "We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." - Jimmy Carter * "We need to awaken to a common consciousness of being all inhabitants of Earth. This consciousness... Continue Reading →
If you have come to help me… you are wasting your time… But if you come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” – Aboriginal activist, Queensland, Australia, the 1970s.
"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun." -Ralph Nader *** "The motivation for war is simple. The U.S. government started the war with Iraq in order to make it easy for U.S. corporations to do business in other countries. They intend to use... Continue Reading →
“The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight.” — Michael Lind, To Have... Continue Reading →
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder "censorship," we call it "concern for commercial viability." - David Mamet "We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign... Continue Reading →
When stones are cast at good people, when the rights of honest, hard-working people are trampled, we should be angry! When anyone anywhere around the world discriminates against another, we should burn with indignation! Raise your voices! Nothing suits the authorities better than the apathy of the people, than their feeling of powerlessness and their... Continue Reading →
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