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Organizations like the UN do a lot of good, but there are certain basic realities they never seem to grasp ...Maybe the most important truth that eludes these organizations is that it's insulting when outsiders come in and tell a traumatized people what it will take for them to heal. You cannot go to another country and make a plan for it. The cultural context is so different from what you know that you will not understand much of what you see. I would never come to the US and claim to understand what's going on, even in the African American culture. People who have lived through a terrible conflict may be hungry and desperate, but they are not stupid. They often have very good ideas about how peace can evolve, and they need to be asked. That includes women. Most especially women ... To outsiders like the UN, these soldiers were a problem to be managed. But they were our children. ↗


— Leymah Gbowee


#culture #liberia #outsiders #war #women

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else that prevents us from living freely and nobly. ↗


— Bertrand Russell


#freedom #materialism #posessions #freedom

If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen and married. ↗


— Elizabeth I Tudor


#british-monarchy #british-royal-family #dignity #empowerment #freedom

The real opposition is that between the ego-bound man, whose existence is structured by the principle of having, and the free man, who has overcome his egocentricity. ↗


— Erich Fromm


#freedom #materialism #poverty #freedom

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out. ↗


— Michel de Montaigne


#captivity #freedom #marriage #married-life #matrimony

E atat de dificil sa fii si sensibila, si mandra. Ca sa nu suferi trebuie sa fii sau una, sau alta. Nu, in orice caz, si una, si alta. ↗


— Jeni Acterian


#fake-people #fake-smile #inspirational #jeni-acterian #life

Raw, alive and honest to the point of disgusting it's listener, Placebo set out to inspire mystery and confusion. Admitting to relishing groups who could make their audience vomit with the sheer intensity of their musical vibrations, Brian clearly knew how to make an impact. Discussing sonic overload with unsettling enthusiasm, he claimed "Some frequencies can make you physically ill or make your bowels loose. The Swans used to do it. By the end of gigs people would vomit because the frequencies were so nasty. ↗


— Chloe Govan


#concerts #music-concerts #placebo #rock-music #inspirational

At the bottom of the pit, there is nothing to fear; above the clouds, there is nothing to hide. ↗


— Robert of Prague


#inspirational #trials-of-life #inspirational

LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred. ↗


— William Shakespeare


#empowerment #equality #freedom #happiness #husbands

The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the land. What is to be thought of a nation boasting of its liberty, boasting of it's humanity, boasting of its Christianity, boasting of its love of justice and purity, and yet having within its own borders three millions of persons denied by law the right of marriage? ↗


— Frederick Douglass


#racism #same-sex-marriage #freedom






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