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“Both rich and poor nations have a common stake in policies that put the globe on a sustainable development path. The conflict is less between poor and rich countries than between the broad interests of people and the narrow interests of extractive industries. We need to find our way towards some kind of global regime that reduces emissions of the greenhouse gases, but well-off nations need to transfer the technology to make this possible, rather than viewing this shift as one more opportunity for private industry to profit.”

“And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget. Leopold's Congo is but one of those silences of history.”

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Book:King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

Source: King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa

“The gap between rich and poor is, in fact, widening enormously. This idea of building up the powers of people who are already powerful and keeping everyone else back is a recipe for endless misery and conflict.”

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Author:Robert Wyatt

“Every conflict we face in life is rich with positive and negative potential. It can be a source of inspiration, enlightenment, learning, transformation, and growth-or rage, fear, shame, entrapment, and resistance. The choice is not up to our opponents, but to us, and our willingness to face and work through them.”

Source: Resolving conflicts at work: a complete guide for everyone on the job

“There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich.”

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Book:India of My Dreams

Source: India of My Dreams

“We have very stable mechanisms of conflict resolution in terms of labor relations, we have a very good transportation infrastructure, we provide our children with an excellent education and the gap between rich and poor in Germany is relatively narrow. On the other hand, we have trouble accepting change.”

“In Guatemala, the gap between rich and poor must be eliminated, or we will continue to be the example of conflict in America.”

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Author:Rigoberta Menchu

“You tell them what a happy ending consists of, which is always individual success. You tell them that nothing irrational exists in this world, which is a lie. You tell them that conflict only exists only to be neatly resolved, and that everyone who is poor wants to be rich, and everyone who is ill wants to get better, and everyone who gets involved in crime comes to a bad end, and that love should be pure. You tell them that despite all this they are special, that the world revolves around them.”

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Book:Our Tragic Universe

Source: Our Tragic Universe

“Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.”

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Book:Uncommon Sense: From the Writings of Howard Zinn

Source: Uncommon Sense: From the Writings of Howard Zinn