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I learned this [ that fear doesn't have to stop me] when my world came apart. I was living a life-long dream of a family life combined with an organization to promote living democracy - all on a gorgeous 45-acre compound in rural Vermont. I'd spent a decade building my dream, and then it started to crumble, piece by piece - my marriage, my organization, my confidence.

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Every choice we make can be a celebration of the world we want.

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Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy.

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Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.

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I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

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What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out othe…

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I read a book in the late 1990s called The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, by Erich Fromm, and it had a profound impact on me. Fromm takes Descarte…

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Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.

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Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it…

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The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

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