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• If we are to create balanced human beings, capable of entering into world-wide co-operation with all other men of good will--and that is the supreme task of our generation, and the foundation of all its other potential achievements--we must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent.
  Lewis Mumford
• Freudian psychology expanded the concept of mind inwards to include the whole communication system within the body - the autonomic, the habitual, and the vast range of unconscious process. What I am saying expands mind outwards. And both of these changes reduce the scope of the conscious self. A certain humility becomes appropriate, tempered by the dignity or joy of being part of something much bigger.
  Gregory Bateson
• There are no single issues because it's one whole that can be addressed only by bringing together all the parts.
  Bioneers
• Those who know don’t have the words to tell
  And the ones with the words don’t know too well
  Bruce Cockburn
• A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our past and present policies. On the one hand, we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.
  Martin Luther King Jr.
• None of us are free if one of us is chained
  Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Brenda Russell
• In our age there is no such thing as "keeping out of politics." All issues are political issues.
  George Orwell
• You have to have a place of love just for humanity and that has to stay consistently throughout whatever you do…. The key for us as people of this humankind and obviously of this country is that we must begin to place every single person equal. When every man or woman, boy or girl, matters to you as much as your mother, father, or your son and daughter matters, no matter what color or ethnicity that you are, that we all matter to each other that much, that is when we will really find the true purpose of what commitment is all about. Until then we are just playing with life. When we begin to really feel those things that real and that consistently is when we will ultimately be doing God’s work.
  Stevie Wonder

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