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• The way in which a society organizes the life of its members ... is one "project" of realization among others. But once the project has become operative in the basic institutions and relations, it tends to become exclusive and to determine the development of the society as a whole.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Realization, Development, Way

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (p. 16), 1964.

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• All the homeschooling parents I know meet on a regular basis with other families. They organize field trips, cooking classes, reading clubs and Scout troops. Their children tend to be happy, confident and socially engaged.

  Quinn Cummings

  Children, Reading, Class

  "The Year of Learning Dangerously: Adventures in Homeschooling". Book by Quinn Cummings, 2012.

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• In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.

  Jared Diamond

  Government, Religion, Latter

  Jared Diamond (2017). “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies”, p.233, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

  Helen Keller

  Army, Want, Profit

  Helen Keller (1967). “Helen Keller, her Socialist years: writings and speeches”

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• When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor, Black, white, latino Americans who had nothing to lose. They would challenge our government to eliminate exploitative, merciless, and war-mongering policies, nationwide, or else "tie up the country" through "means of civil disobedience." Dr. King intended to organize those legions into "coercive direct actions" that would make of Babylon a dysfunctional behemoth begging for relief. Is it any wonder he was killed?

  June Jordan

  Country, Kings, War

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• To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Compassion, Attachment, People

  E.F. Schumacher (1975). “Small is Beautiful”

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• I’ve spent some time working with a non-Italian designer, I’ve been helping him organize fashion shows, the advertising, also helping with the creative part. But the great part about this work is that I am no one!

  Allegra Versace

  Fashion, Italian, Creative

  "Allegra Versace Talks Anorexia, Making A Name For Herself In Fashion" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 6, 2011.

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• It's not uncommon for revolutions to stem from a radicalized group just outside the circle of power. That's what the French Revolution was all about; that's what the American Revolution was. The question is: Will all those groups, because of the nature of partisan polarization and ideological polarization, just fight each other? Or is there capacity to organize?

  Chris Hayes

  Fighting, Circles, Groups

  "The age of illusion". Interview with Jake Blumgart, www.origin.salon.com. June 30, 2012.

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• The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Groups, Privilege, Intention

  "Moral Man and Immoral Society". Book by Reinhold Niebuhr, pp.6-7, 1932.

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• Journal what you love, what you hate, what's in your head, what's important. Journaling organizes your thoughts; allows you to see things in a concrete way that otherwise you might not see. Focus on what you think you need to find in your art.

  Kay WalkingStick

  Art, Hate, Thinking

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• The society that will organize production on the basis of a free and equal association of the producers will put the whole machinery of the state where it will then belong: into the museum of antiquities, by the side of the spinning wheel and the bronze axe.

  Friedrich Engels

  Museums, Association, Spinning

  1884 The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State.

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• To the large extent that music can organize our perceptions of our own bodies and emotions, it can tell us things about history that are not accessible through any other medium.

  Susan McClary

  Music, Perception, Body

  Susan McClary (2017). “Reading Music: Selected Essays”, p.164, Routledge

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• The Trans Pacific Partnership (and fast-track authority to whisk it through Congress without debate) is fast approaching. If you haven't seen our video about it, please watch. If you have, please share. And mobilize and organize friends and colleagues to call their senators and representatives to tell them to vote against this reprehensible deal.

  Robert Reich

  Track, Watches, Video

  FaceBook post by Robert Reich from May 01, 2015

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• If you want to build a ship, don't summon people to buy wood, prepare tools, distribute jobs, and organize the work; teach people the yearning for the wide, boundless ocean.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Jobs, Ocean, People

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• The leader is one who can organize the experience of the group ... and thus get the full power of the group. The leader makes the team. This is pre-eminently the leadership quality - the ability to organize all the forces there are in an enterprise and make them serve a common purpose.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Leadership, Team, Common Purpose

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• A fatal defect in majority rule is that by its very nature it abolishes itself. Majority rule must inevitably become minority rule: the majority is too big to handle itself; it organizes itself into committees ... which in their turn resolve themselves into a committee of one.

  Mary Parker Follett

  Majority Rule, Democracy, Minorities

  Mary Parker Follett (1918). “The New State: Group Organization the Solution of Popular Government”, p.143, Penn State Press

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• The full implications of feminism will evolve over time, as we organize, experiment, think, analyze, and revise our ideas and strategies in light of our experiences. No theory emerges in full detail overnight; the dominant theories of our day have expanded and changed over many decades. That it will take time should not discourage us. That we might fail to pursue our ideas - given the enormous need for them in society today - is unconscionable.

  Charlotte Bunch

  Thinking, Light, Ideas

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• The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.

  John Quincy Adams

  Government, Self, Community

  "Society and Civilization". American Review, July 1845.

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• That’s what painting does; it organizes vision in a certain way or suggests that certain things be paid attention to and certain other things not be paid attention to. It functions in that way to a certain extent in our civilization.

  Jasper Johns

  Civilization, Vision, Doe

  "New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.

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• I work on two levels. I occupy my conscious mind with things to do, lines to draw, movements to organize, rhythms to invent. In fact, I keep myself occupied. But that allows other things to happen which I'm not controlling... the more I exercise my conscious mind, the more open the other things may find that they can come through.

  Bridget Riley

  Exercise, Two, Mind

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• First there is the democratic idea: that all men are endowed by their creator with certain natural rights; that these rights are alienable only by the possessor thereof; that they are equal in men; that government is to organize these natural, unalienable and equal rights into institutions designed for the good of the governed, and therefore government is to be of all the people, by all the people, and for all the people. Here government is development, not exploitation.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Rights, Ideas

  Theodore Parker (1867). “Additional Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.25

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• A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.

  Peter Drucker

  People, Yardsticks, Communicate

  "The Practice of Management". Book by Peter F. Drucker, 1954.

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• After men have got their exaltations and their crowns--have become Gods, even the sons of God--are made Kings of kings and Lords of lords, they have the power then of propagating their species in spirit; and that is the first of their operations with regard to organizing a world. Power is then given to them to organize the elements, and then commence the organization of tabernacles.

  Brigham Young

  Kings, Son, Men

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”

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• The purpose of art ... is not to reflect life but to organize it, to build it.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Art, Purpose, Purpose Of Art

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• Organization is not only directly linked to unity, but a natural development of that unity. Accordingly, the leaders' pursuit of that unity is also an attempt to organize the people, requiring witness to the fact that the struggle for liberation is a common task." "Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.

  Paulo Freire

  Struggle, Organization, People

  "Pedagogy of the Oppressed". Book by Paulo Freire, Chapter 4, Organization, 1968.

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