Radical Quotes - Page 38

• It should be appreciated that this whole effort to hold leaders of states criminally responsible is a rather radical challenge to territorial sovereignty and a repudiation of the whole related ethos of 'sovereign immunity'.

  Richard A. Falk

  Ethos, Leader, Effort

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I feel that all the messages in the Conversations with God dialogues came from God. And many of them have been considered radical.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Messages, Conversations With God, Dialogue

  Source: www.spiritualmediablog.com

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• As George Bernard Shaw observed: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Yet I have to say, the idea that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos does not seem terribly radical to me, nor does the notion that we could be receiving help from outside of our dimension.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Intelligent, Ideas, Doe

  Source: www.spiritualmediablog.com

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• That's about 90 percent of my theological life - radical self-care. Put your own oxygen mask on first. I watch the self-talk that goes through my mind, and if I am being critical with myself, I shake myself out of it.

  Anne Lamott

  Self, Oxygen, Mind

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I think there is a demand. The demand is for a radical economic and political restructuring of the world. And most people would say that's impossible. And it may or may not be achieved, but I think that's less important than articulating what a just and fair world can be.

  Judith Butler

  Thinking, People, Political

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Loving your enemy is a radical concept.

  Tavis Smiley

  Loving You, Enemy, Concepts

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.

  C.E. Morgan

  Struggle, Ambition, Boredom

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• To understand something changing form as a destructive act is a very modern, Western gut reaction to things, and I get it. But what I'm suggesting is nothing radical, this notion of things constantly changing, and that the change is not inherently destructive.

  Dario Robleto

  Things Change, Modern, Reactions

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I tend to like poems that are short as well as funny. I love Joe Brainard and Aram Saroyan. And I think their sense of humor and minimalist approach are pretty radical.

  Elaine Equi

  Thinking, Sense Of Humor, Minimalist

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I feel like we're in a truly revolutionary period, not just in terms of practical activities to overthrow regimes in the Middle East or Occupy but also in terms of radical redefinitions. I feel like workers are a big part of it, but there's so much more going on.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Middle East, Revolutionary, Regimes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I have to be real cool and not savage and radical, because it makes me angry when I think about it when I see the white boys, who are really the number one citizens, the future rulers.

  Muhammad Ali

  Real, Thinking, Boys

  Source: thefederalist.com

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• In seven years, we'll have the highest percentage of Americans non-native born since the founding of the republic. And some people think, "Well, we've always had these numbers." But it's not so. This is very unusual. It's a radical change. And in fact, when the numbers reached about this high in 1924, the president and Congress changed the policy, and it slowed down immigration significantly. And we then assimilated through the 1965 and created really the solid middle class of America, with assimilated immigrants, and it was good for America.

  Jeff Sessions

  Thinking, People, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• What John Marshall says is that right of occupancy can be taken away by purchase, conquest or any other means. So the reason that this case Johnson v. M'Intosh is so important is it really sets the foundation for this radical approach to understanding the basic human rights of Indian people to hold and control the lands that they occupy. It gives the US government the right to relocate, it stands at the bottom of the ethnic cleansing campaigns, for example, in the removal era.

  Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  Taken, Mean, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Writing, for me, has to do with liberty of mind. The liberty to intuit, assess, be surprised, even to be ashamed and reconsider. To feel the integrity and generosity of words, but also their disruptive violence and volatility. To even begin to do them justice requires a radical letting go and stringent attention. I was interested in following that impulse toward liberty.

  Laurie Sheck

  Letting Go, Integrity, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We moved up to Oregon when I was eight, and I think the radical absence of Jewish life here might have strangely made me feel more Jewish. It's a contextual thing I guess.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Thinking, Absence, Moved

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The West, in the form of American capitalism, is seen as having won, but people are beginning to offer alternatives again, sometimes in retrograde ways like radical Islam.

  Karan Mahajan

  People, Islam, Sometimes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My political views have definitely changed over the years. Maybe a better way of saying it is that I have grown into my convictions; the values and ideas of radical feminism that I started to articulate in my late teens feel more internalized or "second nature."

  Kathleen Hanna

  Political, Feminism, Conviction

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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• The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of reformers, radicals, and idealists who challenged the status quo of their day. They helped change America by organizing movements, pushing for radical reforms, popularizing progressive ideas, and spurring others to action.

  Peter Dreier

  Common Sense, Action, Progressive

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You live in a country that's marked by celebrity culture, you know, that basically infantilizes people, paralyzes them, eliminates all notions of civic literacy, turns the school into bastions of ignorance. They completely kill the radical imagination in any fundamental way.

  Henry Giroux

  Country, School, Ignorance

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Schools should be democratic public spheres. They should be places that educate people to be informed, to learn how to govern rather than be governed, to take justice seriously, to spur the radical imagination, to give them the tools that they need to be able to both relate to themselves and others in the wider world. I mean, at the heart of any education that matters, is a central question: How can you imagine a future much different than the present, and a future that basically grounds itself in questions of economic, political and social justice?

  Henry Giroux

  Mean, Heart, School

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When you say that terrorism, particularly ISIS, radicals or terrorists being contained, that are the jayvee team, we don't have to worry about them anymore and then people are being killed in Nice, in Berlin, certainly in Orlando at the nightclub, in San Bernardino, in Paris, in Brussels, it doesn't ring true to anybody that they're not advancing. It doesn't ring true to anybody.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Nice, Team, Worry

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• People don't realize that when Iranians marched against the shah, their goal was not to have a religious government take over. Everybody marched against the shah. There were communists and feminists and student groups. It's very much like what's going on in the U.S. now, with people following Trump. It's not that they want Trump. They want a radical change, is really what people are saying. With the shah, people were just so sick of the corruption they said just get rid of him.

  Firoozeh Dumas

  Religious, People, Sick

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I believe we find ourselves in a period of radical transformation. Regardless of whether it is digitalization, the environment or terrorism. We can be successful in this new world. We have the necessary willingness. The French are inventive and innovative. But we need to finally pick ourselves up.

  Emmanuel Macron

  Believe, Successful, World

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I honestly feel, that difficult periods can be used as a means for radical rethinking and reconnection with some of the fundamental qualities that have made human societies and communities worthwhile and valuable. We all just need to strive towards these new ways of being.

  Lawrence English

  Mean, Community, Quality

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think that my stance on having people come in to this country that we have no idea who they are and in certain cases you will have radical Islamic terrorism. I'm not going to have it in this country. I'm not going to let what happened to France and other places happen here. We have hundreds of thousands of people that have been allowed into our country that should not be here. They shouldn't be here. They have no documentation and they were allowed under the previous administrations, they were allowed into our country. It's a big mistake.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Mistake, Islamic

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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