Quotes

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“If it were between countries, we’d call it war;
if it were a disease, we’d call it an epidemic;
if were an oil spill, we’d call it a disaster;
but it’s happening to thousands of Australian women – and it’s just a domestic.”

— Unknown, This Quote appeared in Putting Women First – a statewide approach to family and domestic violence’, published by VWRADVS and DHS. Betty Taylor uses it at the beginning of her Paper ‘Clearing Pathways – Reforming Systems: A Reflection of the Achievements a

“I am not pro-this people or that. I am pro-justice, pro-freedom. I am anti-injustice, anti-oppression.”

— Naim Ateek, brother of Desmond Tutu, the former Archbishop of Cape Town and chairman of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission

“… three main components of leadership: mastery of the subject-matter, ability convincingly to articulate the particular course of action required and a fervent belief in its correctness.”

— Sir Ninian Stephen, Governor-General of Australia 1982-1989

“Society is indeed a contract – becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”

— Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790

“If I’ve learned one thing in the past months it has been to save the energy I used to expend on being angry about injustice and put that energy into thinking and feeling joy, prosperity, sustainability, health and justice for all. This is what will change the world…………..a ground swell of people pouring their energy into manifesting their “preferred future” instead of being worn down by disillusion and disappointment.”

— Molly Carlile, Author of Jelly Beans and Dead Serious Podcast Network

“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”

— Danny Kaye

“Within every man there is the reflection of a woman,
and within every woman there is the reflection of a man.
Within every man and woman there is also the reflection
of an old man and an old woman, a little boy and a little girl.”

— Hyemeyohsts Storm

“You have got to know what it is you want, or someone is going to sell you a bill of goods somewhere along the line that can do irreparable damage to your self-esteem, your sense of worth, and your stewardship of the talents that God gave you.”

— Richard Nelson Bolles

“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”

— Mark McCormack, Author and sports entrepreneur
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