“On the one hand, our social nature is our greatest beauty - it means that we have natural empathy and sympathy. But our social nature also means that we may let ourselves be controlled by the judgments of others, precisely because we care so much about our status in community.” MayMeanHandsCareSocialCommunityNaturalJudgmentEmpathyControlledJudgment Of Others Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.” IfsWholeProblemHumanityTermCommunityViolenceConflictMarchTribes Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.” PainCommunitySimplePleasureSourceBecomingObsessionFamily LifeBecoming MoreBondingSimple Pleasures Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“What we do in the book my daughter Anna and I wrote, Hope's Edge, is to give people a glimpse of food as a source of nourishment, health, and community, rather than a threat. That means reconnecting with food as it comes from the Earth and with those who produce food.” PeopleGivingMeanBookEarthCommunityProduceSourceDaughterThreatEdgesMy DaughterGlimpseNourishmentAnnaReconnecting Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food.” KnowsCultureCommunityShareMovementProduceFarmsFarmersAgricultureNew Cultures Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new "ism," but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.” WorldTodayFormCultureSocialCommunityWalksEconomicMovementOrganizationDemocraticInteractionInvolvingIsmsForumsSocial Organization Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“Individuality doesn't just mean individualism-standing alone. It means developing one's unique gifts, and being able to share them for the enjoyment of oneself and others.” MeanAbleCommunityShareUniqueStandingIndividualityOneselfDevelopingEnjoymentIndividualismStanding AloneUnique Gifts Book:Rediscovering America's Values Source: Rediscovering America's Values
“I also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking and challenge us to do things we didn't believe ourselves capable of.” PeopleThinkingNeedsBelieveCommunityChallengesImpossibleCapable Author:Frances Moore Lappé
“What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life.” PeopleFirstsHumansRealEarthTimeChoicesCommunityAlivePlanetsRevolutionDignitySpeciesExtraordinaryKillingTiesContinentsOur PlanetEmergingNestsHuman DignityBiodiversityKnittingKilling Each OtherChoose LifeWiping Out Author:Frances Moore Lappé