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• We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Peace, Humanity, Warfare

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• Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

  Neil Young

  Government, People, Community

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• There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Peace, War, Power

  Woodrow Wilson (2015). “Wilson, Volume V: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace, 1916-1917”, p.265, Princeton University Press

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• Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Commitment, Power

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2010). “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, p.164, Beacon Press

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• It is the right of our people to organize to oppose any law and any part of the Constitution with which they are not in sympathy.

  Al Smith

  Sympathy, Law, People

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• This all-pervading power is the power of divine love. It thinks. It organizes. It plans. It loves. It is the one which is the subtle of the ether, you can call it. It is the subtle of the matter. It is the subtle of your emotions. It is the subtle of your mental power. It is the subtle of your evolutionary power, but all integrated and coordinated in complete synchronization.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating. They can breathe it.

  Jean Genet

  Air, Evil, Criminals

  Jean Genet, Edmund White (1993). “The selected writings of Jean Genet”, Ecco Pr

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• An effective leader creates specific, achievable goals, initiates action and enlists the participation of others. They remove distractions; grasps the bigger picture, focuses on one task at a time; completes the task competently and organizes for the future.

  Ken Wyatt

  Leadership, Goal, Tasks

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• The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.

  John C. Maxwell

  Lying, Wrestling, Successful

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• You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?" "He picked up a piece of the truth," said the devil. "That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend. "Oh, not at all," the devil replied, "I am going to help him organize it."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Kids don't have a little brother working in the coal mine, they don't have a little sister coughing her lungs out in the looms of the big mill towns of the Northeast. Why? Because we organized; we broke the back of the sweatshops in this country; we have child labor laws. Those were not benevolent gifts from enlightened management. They were fought for, they were bled for, they were died for by working people, by people like us. Kids ought to know that.

  Utah Phillips

  Country, Song, Brother

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. September 1, 2003.

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• Let me remind you that you have a two-fold task to perform. With the force of arms and at the cost of your blood you will have to win liberty. Then, when India is free, you will have to organize the permanent army of Free India, whose task it will be to preserve our liberty for all time. We must build up our national defense on such an unshakable foundation that never again in our history shall we lose our freedom.

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Army, Winning, Blood

  Subhas Chandra Bose (2007). “Chalo Delhi: writings and speeches, 1943-1945”

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• If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America, because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Shoes, White

  Msnbc live with Cenk Uygur, www.nbcnews.com. February 25, 2011.

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• Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.

  Doris Day

  Thoughtful, Helping Others, Views

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• Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to gain information, to have thoughts for that matter, to make plans, to enter into the political system in some active way, to put forth programs and so on. If organizations of that kind exist, then democracy can exist too. Otherwise it's a matter of pushing a lever every couple of years; it's like having the choice between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola.

  Noam Chomsky

  Couple, Hero, Mean

  "Intervention in Vietnam and Central America: Parallels and Differences". 1985.

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• The name of the game is to talk to people. If you don't talk to people, you can't get started...You knock on twenty doors or so, and twenty guys tell you to go to hell, or that they haven't got time. But maybe at the fortieth or sixtieth house you find the one guy who is all you need. You're not going to organize everything; you're just going to get it started.

  Cesar Chavez

  Commitment, Doors, Games

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• We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. We are sons and daughters of the farm workers' revolution, a revolution of the poor seeking bread and justice.

  Cesar Chavez

  Daughter, Son, Justice

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• ...many have the idea that organizing people is very difficult, but it isn't. It becomes difficult only at the point where you begin to see other things that are easier. But if you are willing to give the time and make the sacrifice, it's not that difficult to organize.

  Cesar Chavez

  Sacrifice, Ideas, Giving

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• Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops.

  Cesar Chavez

  Running, War, Fighting

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.70, Texas A&M University Press

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• "The life of the union depends upon more people getting to share the limelight, because with the limelight also comes responsibility and with the responsibility comes a little sharing of the load." "There isn't enough money to organize poor people. There never is enough money to organize anyone. If you put it on the basis of money, you're not going to succeed."

  Cesar Chavez

  Responsibility, People, Unions

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• We'll organize workers in this movement as long as we're willing to sacrifice. The moment we stop sacrificing, we stop organizing.

  Cesar Chavez

  Sacrifice, Long, Movement

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.70, Texas A&M University Press

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• Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts, even to know what we can or might observe. And we need facts to validate theories and give them substance.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Strong, Science, Giving

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms”, p.155, Harvard University Press

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• Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

  Oscar Wilde

  Ignorance, Community, Public Opinion

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.118, Courier Corporation

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• When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But usually, without being aware of it, we try to change something other than ourselves; we try to order things outside us. But it is impossible to organize things if you yourself are not in order. When you do things in the right way, at the right time, everything else will be organized.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Order, Organization, Mind

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.10, Shambhala Publications

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• Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.

  Larry Page

  Technology, World, Information

  "Online Extra: Google's Goal: 'Understand Everything'". Interview with Ben Elgin, www.bloomberg.com. May 3, 2004.

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