Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

There is power in organization. There is power in a community. People have always wanted to destroy communities. ”

There are millions of Americans who belong by nature in movie theaters as they belong at political rallies or in fortuneteller parlors and on the shoot-the-chutes. To these millions, the movies are a sort of boon - a gaudier version of religion. ”

I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American music. ”

I love San Francisco more than any other city outside of Seattle, but I've seen it go from a vibrant, creative community to a playground for tech bros. ”

Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient opportunity in the pursuit of happiness, your population will develop its talents, its intellect, its better judgment; that over time its capacity for discernment and self-correction will be enlarged. ”

The nature of honesty is that if someone has information or knows something about you that you don't want heard, then they have power over you. ”

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous. ”

I'm a creature of habit and tend to favour small, traditional English businesses. ”

I eat out three times a day most days of the year. This is no big deal to most New Yorkers, and it is not something I am necessarily proud of - it's simply the nature of my itinerant life. ”

When I can, I enjoy working with local people to involve everyone in the community in changing their environment. ”