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“Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity.”

Mind States Democracy Activity Structure Activism State Of Mind

“Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.”

Challenges Activism Judicial Parliamentary Judicial Activism Parliamentary System

“My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.”

World Trying Real Inspiration Motivation Next Games Easy Goal Decades Activism Real Life Online Save The World

Author:Jane McGonigal

“A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a single year. ... That means that if the entire U.S., for two years, had top-quartile teachers, the entire difference between us and Asia would go away.”

Ifs Years Mean Two Inspiration Motivation Differences Class Teacher Percent Tests Performances Increase Activism Score Two Years Going Away Asia Test Scores

Author:Bill Gates

“The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit. But because you don't have many other openings, the heat coming out of this opening is sometimes very strong, active and even violent.”

“I want to admit that I am an optimist. Any tough problem, I think it can be solved.”

Thinking Want Problem Inspiration Motivation Tough Activism Optimist Tough Problems

Author:Bill Gates

“I think there's a number of pillars to success. One is you've got to have a great idea. The other is you've got to have a constituency, you've got to have finance, and you've got to be able to raise awareness.”

Thinking Ideas Inspiration Able Motivation Numbers Awareness Raises Activism Finance Great Idea Pillars

Author:Jeremy Gilley

“The first myth to dispel is that Africa is not a country. It's made up of 53 different countries. So to say 'invest in Africa' is a no-go. It's meaningless.”

Firsts Made Different Country Inspiration Motivation Myth Activism Meaningless Different Countries

Author:Euvin Naidoo

“[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that there are plenty of opportunities to invest in stable, growing, exciting economies where there's plenty of opportunity.”

Ifs Mean Country Three Opportunity Economy Four Growing Conflict Exciting Activism Plenty Stable Continents

Author:Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

“The coldest growing seasons of the future [will be] hotter than the hottest of the past. Is agriculture adapted to that? I don't know. Can fish play the piano?”

Knows Play Inspiration Past Motivation Growing Seasons Fishes Activism Piano Agriculture Adapted Hottest Hotter

Author:Cary Fowler

“If we don't pay attention to [nonviolent protests], they are invisible, and it's as if they never happened. But I have seen first hand that if we do, they will multiply.”

Ifs Firsts Hands Inspiration Motivation Pay Attention Happened Activism Invisible Pay Attention Protest

Author:Julia Bacha

“No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.”

Needs Problem Inspiration Motivation Principles Activism Avoidance Fixing Stance Precaution

Author:David Deutsch

“I'm not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I'm talking about losing it in the same way that we lost the dinosaurs: actually losing it, never to be seen again.”

Way Inspiration Motivation Lost Loses Talking Car Keys Diversity Losing Activism Dinosaurs Not Talking Car Keys

Author:Cary Fowler

“George Kimble said, 'The only thing dark about Africa is our ignorance of it.' So let's start shedding light on this amazing eclectic continent that has so much to offer.”

Said Light Inspiration Motivation Dark Ignorance Offers Activism Continents Eclectic Shedding Light

Author:Euvin Naidoo

“When the average American consumes 43 times as much as the average African, we've got to think that consumption is an issue. It's not just about population.”

Thinking Inspiration Motivation Issues Average Population Activism Consumption

Author:Jason W Clay

“Education campaigns ... may not be enough, at least not alone. If people have no incentive to avoid AIDS on their own, even if they know everything about the disease, they still may not change their behavior.”

People Ifs Knows May Stills Enough Inspiration Motivation Disease Behavior Activism Aids Campaigns Incentives Not Alone

Author:Emily Oster

“I'm standing here saying that those who miss the boat now, will miss it forever. So if you want to be in Africa, think about investing.”

Ifs Thinking Want Forever Missing Standing Investing Activism Boat

Author:Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

“Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they ... can never be without some element of education.”

Problem Bigs Elements Solutions Agree Activism Big Problems

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.”

Firsts Children States Natural Resources Agree Activism Natural Resources Head Of State

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“Environmental justice [means that] no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.”

Should Mean Community Justice Benefits Environmental Burden Activism Environmental Justice

Author:Majora Carter

“I think the environmental movement has failed in that it's used the stick too much; it's used the apocalyptic tone too much; it hasn't sold the positive aspects of being environmentally concerned and trying to pull us out.”

Thinking Trying Used Too Much Movement Concerned Aspect Sticks Environmental Activism Tone Apocalyptic

Author:Edward Burtynsky

“Surely the biggest problem we have in the world is that we all die. But we don't have a technology to solve that, right? So the point is not to prioritize problems; the point is to prioritize solutions to problems.”

World Problem Dies Technology Solutions Solve Activism Prioritize Solution To A Problem

Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“We've had the U.N. for almost 60 years, yet we've never actually made a fundamental list of all the big things that we can do in the world, and said, 'Which of them should we do first?'”

World Should Years Firsts Made Said Bigs Can Do Fundamentals Activism Lists Big Things

Author:Bjorn Lomborg

“We have a chance here to prove that [Rwanda], a country that almost slaughtered itself out of existence, can practice reconciliation, reorganize itself, focus on tomorrow and provide comprehensive, quality health care with minimal outside help.”

Country Helping Care Chance Existence Quality Practice Focus Tomorrow Prove Activism Health Care Reconciliation Comprehensive Rwanda Quality Health Care

Author:William J. Clinton

“We can send people to the Moon; we can see if there's life on Mars - why can't we get $5 [mosquito] nets to 500 million people?”

People Ifs Millions Moon Activism Mars Mosquitoes

Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

“Today, the European Union is busy transferring aid. If they can build infrastructure in Spain, roads, highways ... why do they refuse to use the same aid to build the same infrastructure in our countries?”

Ifs Country Use Today Unions Busy Refuse Activism Aids Our Country Spain Highways Infrastructure European Union

Author:Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

“The students wanted to speak to the government, and the police answered with bullets.”

Government Wanted Speak Students Police Activism Bullets

Author:Vusi Mahlasela

“We have two choices: One is to continue to see a poor, ill, crying Africa, carrying guns, that depends on other people forever, or to promote an Africa which is confident, peaceful, independent, but cognizant of its huge problems and great values at the same time.”

People Two Problem Values Choices Poor Forever Cry Huge Depends Gun Independent Ill Activism Peaceful Two Choices Great Value Cognizant Carrying Guns

Author:Zeresenay Alemseged

“This is not something that happens far away to people that we don't know. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.”

People Knows Happens Activism Global Warming Far Away

Author:Larry Brilliant

“Life on Earth is at an ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by disaster. ... I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space.”

Ifs Thinking Want Humans Earth Interest Space Race Risk Activism Disaster Human Race Public Interest

Author:Peter Diamandis

“We've got the science, we've had the debate. The moral imperative is on the table. Great creativity is needed to take it all, make it simple and sharp. To make it connect. To make it make people want to act.”

People Want Simple Moral Creativity Needed Tables Activism Debate Imperatives

Author:Andy Hobsbawm

“When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.”

People Humans Littles Home Steps Impossible Walking Ambition Activism Aspiration Valleys Vitality Garbage Alleys Slums Sewage

Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

“You don't look in the eyes of a carrot seed quite in the way you do a panda bear, but it's very important diversity.”

Way Looks Important Eye Bears Diversity Seeds Activism Carrots Pandas

Author:Cary Fowler

“A Good Samaritan is not simply one whose heart is touched in an immediate act of care and charity, but one who provides a system of sustained care.”

Heart Care Charity Activism Touched Samaritans

Author:James A. Forbes

“This LGBT singing choir has demonstrated how women are investing in tradition to create change, like alchemists turning discord into harmony.”

Singing Tradition Harmony Investing Activism Lgbt Alchemist Choir Discord

Author:Kavita Ramdas

“We would like to see the virtual elimination of the transmission of [HIV] from mother to child by 2015. ... We believe it can be achieved with political will.”

Believe Children Political Mother Activism Hiv Elimination Transmission Political Will

Author:Annie Lennox

“These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.”

Trying Kind Has Beens Enough Values Process Imagination Imagine Violence Youth Balance Universal Chaos Inspired Activism Realistic Magnificent Idealistic

Author:Wadah Khanfar

“There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.”

Culture Social Movement Youth Majority Democratic Terrorism Activism Als Al Qaeda Advocating Grassroots Social Movements Grassroots Movements

Author:Maajid Nawaz

“By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.”

Problem Energy Generations Clean Climate Climate Change Solve Activism Setting Settings Clean Energy

Author:Alex Steffen

“Nothing scares the army more than nonviolent opposition.”

Army Activism Opposition Scare

Author:Julia Bacha

“Violent resistance and nonviolent resistance share one very important thing in common: They are both a form of theater seeking an audience to their cause.”

Important Form Causes Common Audience Share Theater Important Things Seeking Activism Violent Resistance Nonviolent Resistance Non Violent Resistance

Author:Julia Bacha

“Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?”

Activism Palestinian

Author:Julia Bacha

“The echo of the gunshots lingered; it was soon drowned by the chanting of the mob, and I didn't believe what I was hearing. They were chanting, 'We want peace. We want peace.'”

Want Believe Hearing Activism Echoes Chanting Gunshots

Author:Jarreth J. Merz

“Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.”

Activism Apathy

Author:Emiliano Salinas

“Maybe subconsciously I've kept activism separate from acting because it's important to me in a more profound way.”

Way Important Acting Profound Activism Separation

Author:Blythe Danner

“Sacred Activism is the fusion of the mystic's passion for God with the activist's passion for justice, creating a third fire, which is the burning sacred heart that longs to help, preserve, and nurture every living thing.”

Heart Helping Passion Justice Fire Creating Thirds Social Justice Sacred Activism Burning Preserves Activist Nurture Living Things Mystic Fusion Sacred Heart

Book:Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action

Source: Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action

“Stay positive, joyful, and optimistic in your activism, even in the face of adversity. Understand that most people continue to consume animal products because they are unaware of the hidden cost - animal cruelty - not because they are bad or apathetic. Offer information, support, and resources in a friendly and supportive manner, as few people have begun their journey toward a compassionate lifestyle by being shamed or ridiculed. Turn anger and frustration into motivation to be as effective as possible.”

“What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.”

Study Rights Movement Activism Civil Rights Hippie Civil Rights Movement

Author:David Price

“Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.”

World Littles Has Beens Left Natural Environmental Activism Destroyed Around The World Stewardship Natural World Wildlife Environmental Stewardship

Author:Jim Fowler

“I'm hopeful that increased awareness of the issues in Africa will bring about a new wave of progress and activism among young people everywhere.”

People Young Issues Progress Awareness Wave Activism Hopeful

Author:Angelina Jolie

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