QUTOES
AIDS
"We must work to repeal trade agreements that impede
access to affordable generic drugs. We must work to cause the
IMF and the World Bank to reduce and eventually eliminate the
debt that takes poor nations' resources away from crises like
AIDS. We must focus America's leadership on addressing and ending
this epidemic."
Change
"I
hold in my heart that rebellious spirit of youth that demands
change."
Children
"We're
not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment,
and jeopardize the future of our children."
Citizenship
Active
citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome
and a conscious application of spiritual principles.
Department
of Peace
Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause
to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than
the transformation of our society, to make non-violence an organizing
principle, to make war archaic through creating a paradigm shift
in our culture for human development, for economic and political
justice and for violence control.
Economy
I
see an America where the economy works for everyone because everyone
is working. I see a new horizon in this country where there is
no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment.
Energy
It is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts consumers,
the environment, human health, and peace first.
Environment
"We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment,
and jeopardize the future of our children."
Freedom
the light of freedom cannot be extinguished as long as it is inside
of us.
freedom rings
resoundingly in a democracy each time we speak freely.
freedom stirs
the human heart and fear stills it.
That is the
America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which
is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom.
Global
Awakening
If
governments and their leaders, bound by hierarchy and patriarchy,
wedded to military might for legitimacy, fail to grasp the implications
of an emerging world consciousness for cooperation, for peace
and for sustainability, they may become irrelevant.
"Wake up America!
The insurance companies took over health care!
Wake up America! The pharmaceutical companies took over drug pricing!
Wake up America! The speculators took over Wall Street!
Wake up America! They want your Social Security!
Wake up America! Multinational corporations took over our trade
policies!
Wake up America! We went into Iraq for oil! WAKE UP AMERICA!"
Health
"Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should
have health care. I'm not selling insurance."
Interconnection
"Our vision of interconnectedness resonates with new networks
of world citizens in nongovernmental organizations linking from
numberless centers of energy, expressing the emergence of a new
organic whole, seeking unity within and across national lines...
If governments and their leaders, bound by hierarchy and patriarchy,
wedded to military might for legitimacy, fail to grasp the implications
of an emerging world consciousness for cooperation, for peace
and for sustainability, they may become irrelevant."
Justice
Let us today seek to find that place within each of us where
dreams are made, where our highest aspirations take shape. Let
us confirm the power of our humanity by giving architecture and
substance to the dreams we have for our nation, so that the promised
land of social and economic justice that is within our dreams
will soon be within our sight.
Movement
As
citizen-activists the world over merge, they can become an irresistible
force to create peace and protect the planet. From here will come
a new movement to abolish nuclear weapons and all weapons of mass
destruction. From here will come the demand for sustainable communities,
for new systems of energy, transportation and commerce. From here
comes the future rushing in on us. How does one acquire the capacity
for active citizenship? The opportunities exist every day...Active
citizenship begins with an envisioning of the desired outcome
and a conscious application of spiritual principles.
Nuclear
We must work toward the elimination of all nuclear weapons,
and an end to policies which cause this country to move toward
the weaponization of space.
Peace
"Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible.
Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued
existence."
Peace
is not just the absence of war, it is the active presence of a
capacity for love and compassion, and reciprocity. It is an awareness
that our lives are not to be lived simply for ourselves through
expressing our individuality, but we confirm the purpose of our
lives through the work of expressing our shared sense of community
in a purposeful and practical way; to sustain our own lives we
sustain the lives of others - in family, in a community of neighborhoods
called a city, and in a community of nations called the world.
Poverty
Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction. Homelessness is a weapon
of mass destruction. Unemployment is a weapon of mass destruction.
Social
Security
First
of all, the Social Security money belongs to Main Street, not
to Wall Street. It needs to be said very clearly here that privatization
is off the table... Social Security, as a matter of fact, is a
better investment now than the stock market. There’s a higher
return. There’s guaranteed cost-of-living increases. Privatization
you have to worry about the value of your account.
Corporations
are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under
attack.
War
"The
belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy...
We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected."
Let us work
for a world where someday war becomes archaic.
Let us today
seek to find that place within each of us where dreams are made,
where our highest aspirations take shape. Let us confirm the power
of our humanity by giving architecture and substance to the dreams
we have for our nation, so that the promised land of social and
economic justice that is within our dreams will soon be within
our sight.
It
is time to free ourselves, to jettison our illusions and fears
and transform age-old challenges with new thinking. We can conceive
of peace as not simply the absence of violence but the active
presence of the capacity for a higher evolution of human awareness,
of respect, trust, and integrity. Of peace, wherein we all may
tap the infinite capabilities of humanity to transform consciousness
and conditions that impel or compel violence at a personal, group,
or national level toward creating understanding, compassion, and
love. We can bring forth new understandings where peace, not war,
becomes inevitable. Can we move from wars to end all wars to peace
to end all war?
War can be
so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match
it to families, then war is not impersonal.
Joblessness
is a weapon of mass destruction. Poverty is a weapon of mass destruction.
Hunger is a weapon of mass destruction. Poor health care is a
weapon of mass destruction. Poor education is a weapon of mass
destruction. Discrimination is a weapon of mass destruction. Let
us abolish such weapons of mass destruction here at home.
Poverty is
a weapon of mass destruction. Joblessness is a weapon of mass
destruction, homelessness, a weapon of mass destruction... racism,
a weapon of mass destruction, fear, a weapon of mass destruction.
We must disarm these weapons and renew our commitment to quality
public schools and dedicated teachers and good housing and quality
health care and decent jobs and stronger neighborhoods.
