"I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams."

David R. Brower, American Environmentalist

Power, People

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"I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams."

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"A wolf can only mock a lion thousands of miles away."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Think you're a slave and you'll find a master, think you're a master and slaves will find you."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Only when the lion is out of sight can you raise your fist at him."

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"Your mind is a weapon. Your heart is an asset. Your soul is a treasure. Your life is a jewel."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"The kind of gospel that our churches are preaching sometimes are not powerful enough to change the very street where these churches are located talk less of the nation where they are."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power."

Brandon Sanderson, American Author

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"Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems."

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"We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

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"We bring the fucking rain Q, not the scattered showers."

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"Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations."

Generations

"Perhaps we'll realize that each of us has not one vote but ten thousand or a million."

Vote

"We've pumped waste into cavities in solid rock and found that it spread through the rock."

Waste

"We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open."

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"We've got to search back to our last known safe landmark. I can't say exactly where, but I think it's back there at the start of the Industrial Revolution, we began applying energy in vast amounts to tools with which we began tearing the environment apart."

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"What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?"

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"I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that."

Work

"Yet another proposal would have us rocket the waste into the sun, but, as you're probably aware, about one in ten of our space shots doesn't quite make it out of the earth's gravitational field."

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"I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living."

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"A great deal of pressure was then built up to remove me from the club and my resignation was, finally, a forced one."

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