Crisis Quotes - Page 38

• Crises precede transformation.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Transformation

  Barbara Marx Hubbard (2012). “Birth 2012 and Beyond: Humanity's Great Shift to the Age of Conscious Evolution”, p.34, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• If I wrote a book, I had to be willing at least to talk about some of my struggles, whether in my personal life, health crises, or the deaths of my parents, because there can too easily be a perception of me that my life just went from A to Z uninterrupted, without any ups and downs, and that's not a fair representation.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Book, Struggle, Parent

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• The literacy level at Mississippi prisons? Fifth grade. Can't read, what are you going to do? If you've got a conviction rap, what are you going to do? It's a real crisis.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Real, Rap, Levels

  "The Lenny Interview: Marian Wright Edelman". Interview with Jurnee Smollett-bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• Carolyn Maloney has extensive - she's shown over and over again her creativity, her determination, her tenacity in fighting for women's rights. She has passed a host of bills in many different areas, both national and global, with both national and global importance for women, and she's on a Chair of Finance Committee so essentially in this economic crisis, we thought she would be perfect.

  Eleanor Smeal

  Determination, Creativity, Fighting

  Source: www.blogher.com

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• Think about the books that you were reading at a certain crisis in your life, what you were reading, and that's because you needed them to nourish your alma.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• On the one hand, I loved being a banker. I loved how numbers could tell a story and how you can invest in ideas and see them translate into products and services and create jobs. What I didn't like, particularly where I was working in Brazil during the debt crisis of the early '80s, was how the poor were excluded from the banking system. I made the decision to try and experiment with whether we could use the tools of banking to extend the benefits of the economy to the poor.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Jobs, Hands, Ideas

  "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.

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• Everybody is always talking about droughts and sea level rise, but when human civilization, with more crowding and greater resource depletion, is under that much stress, it translates into wars and huge displaced populations. The Syrian refugee crisis is just a first taste of what it's going to be like. I don't want my kids growing up in that kind of world.

  James Cameron

  Growing Up, War, Stress

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• The migrants are not a temporary crisis. The crisis is mounting.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Migrants, Temporary

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• I have seen water availability change drastically in my own lifetime. Around the world, millions of people are already living in a true water crisis.

  Penelope Cruz

  Availability, People, Water

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• The constant drive for campaign dollars has distorted decision-making in Washington, DC, to the point where our systems can no longer effectively address complex, long-term problems like the climate crisis. Which brings me to my other major concern - the short-term focus of capitalism. It distorts the allocation of resources and the decision-making processes of companies.

  Al Gore

  Long, Focus, Decision

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The rest of the world understands little about China's changes and the possibilities and crises that come with them.

  Ai Weiwei

  Littles, World, Possibility

  "Freely Speaking". Interview with Paul D. Miller, realitysandwich.com. August 22, 2012.

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• The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Stronger, Overcoming, Unions

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• It's wrong - everyone's concentrating on the wrong thing. There's 130 million people in crisis in this world at the moment, in humanitarian crisis, and most of them are women, more than half of them are women. So can we all stop slinging mud at each other about definition?

  Natalie Dormer

  People, Half, World

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I run; that's sort of my meditation. I've been to therapy in the past when I've had crisis moments in my life; I think it's very healthy. I think that's even a more acceptable attitude in America actually than it is probably back at home [in England].

  Natalie Dormer

  Running, Attitude, Home

  Source: www.elle.com

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• That's part of what I touch on in my [UN] speech - when assaults happen on women and girls in these fragile countries, in these places of crisis, there isn't the psychosocial support. There aren't counseling services. It's not in a lot of cultures to explicitly talk about things that maybe have happened to the body. So, repression of emotion, and shame, and guilt is something that really needs to be handled in humanitarian crises.

  Natalie Dormer

  Girl, Country, Support

  Source: www.elle.com

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• It's important for presidents to emotionally connect, with the country in times of crisis, but also with people in Washington. If you can't emotionally connect - and [Barack] Obama is not the greatest, but he can at least do it - then people won't be with you when the times are hard.

  David Brooks

  Country, People, Important

  "Shields and Brooks on which convention was more successful, Clinton's failure to emotionally connect". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. July 29, 2016.

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• The issue of "who we are" has been an ongoing one. It's part of the ongoing identity crisis of America.

  Diana L. Eck

  America, Issues, Identity

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• This declaration alone will help stop the crisis of illegal crossings and illegal overstays, very importantly.

  Donald Trump

  Helping, Illegal, Declaration

  "Transcript of Donald Trump’s Immigration Speech". www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• From the beginning, we failed to overcome Europe's division. The Berlin Wall fell, but invisible walls were moved to the East of Europe. This has led to mutual misunderstandings and assignments of guilt. They are the cause of all crises ever since.

  Vladimir Putin

  Wall, Europe, Guilt

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Now they [NATO and the USA ] are sitting there, and we are talking about all these crises we would otherwise not have. You can also see this striving for an absolute triumph in the American missile defense plans.

  Vladimir Putin

  Talking, Usa, Triumph

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The G20 was established as a forum to discuss, first and foremost, world economic issues. If we load it with... Of course, politics affects economic processes, this is obvious, but if we bring some squabbles, or not squabbles, rather, some matters that are really important but relate purely to world politics, we will overload the G20 agenda and instead of addressing such issues as finance, structural economic reforms, tax evasion and so forth, we will engage in endless debates concerning the Syrian crisis or some other global challenges, of which there are many, or the Middle East problem.

  Vladimir Putin

  Issues, Challenges, Important

  Source: thesaker.is

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• Of course, nobody does [want another Cuban Missile Crisis].

  Vladimir Putin

  Doe, Cuban Missile Crisis, Want

  Source: thesaker.is

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• It's not possible to solve the climate crisis while we continue to expand fracking.

  Jill Stein

  Climate, Fracking, Solve

  "Jill Stein tells The Times editorial board why she thinks voting Democrat or Republican makes little difference". Los Angeles Times Interview, www.latimes.com. September 6, 2016.

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• You cannot solve the climate crisis if you are putting people out of work.

  Jill Stein

  People, Climate, Solve

  "Jill Stein tells The Times editorial board why she thinks voting Democrat or Republican makes little difference". Interview with Los Angeles Times editorial board, www.latimes.com. September 6, 2016.

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• The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important aspect of globalization-its economy-is currently being organized in a manner that so gravely violates the fundamental principles by which healthy living systems are organized that it threatens the demise of our whole civilization.

  Elisabet Sahtouris

  Civilization, Healthy, Humanity

  "The Biology of Globalization". World Futures: Vol. 55, Challenges of Evolution at the Turn of the Millennium: Part III: The Chllenges of Globalization and Sustainability, pp. 105-127, 2000.

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