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direct-action acting ifs
Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free. David Graeber
direct-action people important
Yet what you need is not marches, demonstrations, rallies or wide associations, all of them are important. What you need is direct action. The sooner people understand that, the sooner we'll begin to change things. Arthur Scargill
direct-action impact empowering
Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in. Joe Greene
direct-action logical method
Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. Emma Goldman
direct-action healthy invigorating
Even if it doesn't work, there is something healthy and invigorating about direct action Henry Miller
direct-action voting democracy
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens. Howard Zinn
direct-action government asking
Strike is always a form of direct action. With the strike, too, you are not asking government to make things easier for you by passing legislation, you are taking a direct action against the employer.
direct-action people peaceful
When the democratic deficit is so enormous, people are left with very little option but to take peaceful, non-violent direct action. Caroline Lucas
direct-action issues creative
Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth. Martin Luther King, Jr.
impact world west
As with much of the world's problems, they become public--or much more of interest--the moment they begin to impact the West. Chris Abani
impact dignity structure
The visual impact of the stupa on the observer brings a direct experience of inherent wakefulness and dignity. Stupas continue to be built because of their ability to liberate one simply upon seeing their structure Chogyam Trungpa
impact people goal
Great leaders help their people see how they can directly impact the company's objectives and their own personal goals. Chip Conley
impact judging long
We have to judge presidents not only by the long-term consequences of their actions but also by how they make citizens in their own day feel. One reason that Nixon never succeeded in his comeback campaign is that he had such a negative impact on public trust at the time of his presidency. David Greenberg
impact people culture
Writers shouldn’t underestimate the difficulty of what they’re doing, and they should treat it with great seriousness. You’re doing something that really matters, you’re telling stories that have an impact on other people and on the culture. You should tell the best stories you can possibly tell and put everything you’ve got into it. David Guterson
impact long use
Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster. David Crystal
impact long atmosphere
We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble? David Suzuki
impact addiction environmental
If we want to address global warming, along with the other environmental problems associated with our continued rush to burn our precious fossil fuels as quickly as possible, we must learn to use our resources more wisely, kick our addiction, and quickly start turning to sources of energy that have fewer negative impacts.
impact warning too-late
Scientists have been warning about global warming for decades. It's too late to stop it now, but we can lessen its severity and impacts.
empowering truthful vulnerable
I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me. Alanis Morissette
empowering
The gospel changes how we view and work with others in a way that both humanizes our interactions with them and empowers them to work well. David Kim
empowering support cost
Women – love each other, support each other, defend each other. It comes at a greater cost to you to attack the women around you than it does to empower them. Caitlin Stasey
empowering grace doe
Grace does not overlook sin, it empowers righteousness! Bill Johnson
empowering inspire want
So I'm very happy if my words can ever inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority... We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love. Beyonce Knowles
empowering conquer divide-and-conquer
Divide and conquer must become define and empower. Audre Lorde
empowering joy erotic
Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. . . .
empowering experience spiritual
was the most empowering and spiritual experience of my life. Penny Lancaster
empowering
We as women need to empower each other. Ariel Winter