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• When I go around in America and I see the bulk of the white people, they do not feel oppressed; they feel powerless... and we understand the psychological genocide that they have already inflicted upon their own people.

  John Trudell

  White, America, People

  "The Indigenous Voice: Visions and Realities (Volume 2)". Book edited by Roger Moody, 1988.

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• This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it.

  Josiah Warren

  Crush, Money, Hype

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• The circulating medium being issued only by those who labor, they would suddenly become invested with all the wealth and all the power; and those who did not labor, be they ever so rich now, would as suddenly become poor and powerless.

  Josiah Warren

  Power, Wealth, Rich

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• My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts, do not feat that it will dampen your endeavor and keep it from being fulfilled, do not say, Sin is strong, impiety is strong, the bad environment is strong, and we are lonely and powerless, the bad environment will dampen us and keep our good endeavor from being fulfilled. Flee from such despondency, my children! There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for the sins of men.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lonely, Strong, Children

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• For that was the terrible power of the dementors: to force their victims to relive the worst memories of their lives, and drown, powerless, in theirown despair. . . .

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Mentor, Despair

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• I suffer mornings most of all
  I feel so powerless and small
  By ten o'clock I'm back in bed
  Fighting the jury in my head

  Amanda Palmer

  Morning, Fighting, Suffering

  Song: Have to Drive

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• Then what am I - the body substance which I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands? Or am I this realization, this greater understanding which dwells within it, yet expands through the universe outside; a part of all existence, powerless but without need for power; immersed in solitude, yet in contact with all creation? There are moments when the two appear inseparable, and others when they could be cut apart by the merest flash of light.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Eye, Cutting, Light

  "The Spirit of St. Louis".

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• Power to the people' can only
  be put into practice when the power exercised by social elites is
  dissolved into the people. Each individual can then take control of
  his daily life. If 'Power to the people' means nothing more than
  power to the 'leaders' of the people, then the people remain an
  undifferentiated, manipulatable mass, as powerless after the revolution as they were before. In the last analysis, the people can never
  have power until they disappear as a 'people.

  Murray Bookchin

  Mean, Practice, People

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• We must remember that one of the most insidious ways of keeping women and minorities powerless is to let them only talk about harmless and inconsequential subjects.

  Mitsuye Yamada

  Minorities, Way, Remember

  Mitsuye Yamada, Merle Woo, Nellie Wong (2003). “Three Asian American Writers Speak Out on Feminism”, Red Letter Press

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• Notice what happens when you doubt, suppress, or act contrary to your feelings. You will observe decreased energy, powerless or helpless feelings, and physical or emotional pain. Now notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. Usually the result is increased energy and power and a sense of natural flow. When you're at one with yourself, the world feels peaceful, exciting, and magical.

  Shakti Gawain

  Pain, Emotional, Peaceful

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• Who has the skill to make a narrow, obstinate human being aware of others' far-off grief and joy, to make him understand dimensions and delusions he himself has never lived through? Propaganda, coercion, and scientific proofs are powerless. But happily, in our world there is a way. It is art, and it is literature.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Art, Grief, Our World

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• To listen acutely is to be powerless, even if you sit on a throne.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Listening, Thrones, Ifs

  Cynthia Ozick (1987). “The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• You can look at a slum or a peasant village, but it is only by entering into the world - by living in it -that you begin to understand what it is like to be powerless, to be like Christ.

  Penny Lernoux

  Village, Looks, Entering

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• I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.

  Channing Tatum

  Political, Upset, Soldier

  "Channing Tatum Interview DEAR JOHN, Plus Info on Dito Montiel’s SON OF NO ONE and THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 31, 2010.

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• The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Important, Desire, Emotion

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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• We are fools to depend upon the society of our fellow-men. Wretched as we are, powerless as we are, they will not aid us; we shall die alone.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Solitude, Fellow Man

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• The beauty was in the waking of the powerless. Is it always to be true that it is impossible to have things strong and at the same time beautiful? The famished men need not stay famished. But to gorge themselves in this heartbreaking way consuming, utterly destroying the common promise of their greed, was that ever necessary?

  Ayi Kwei Armah

  Beautiful, Strong, Men

  Ayi Kwei Armah (1988). “The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born”, p.85, Heinemann

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• Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed to failure. For the strong the weak are just too much of a temptation; and in all fairness it seems to me quite wicked for black people to have tempted the powerful with so much powerless-ness for so long. The obvious answer is to redress this imbalance in power.

  Lewis Nkosi

  Strong, Powerful, Long

  Lewis Nkosi (1983). “Home and exile and other selections”, Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

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• Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Real, Taken, Eden

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• The paralyzing effect of fear makes us as helpless as babies and blinds us to the truth that God didn't send us here to be powerless spectators, but to become powerful initiators. We are spiritual beings having an earthly experience, and we have the power to break the cycle of negativity that is fueling a very dangerous world. It's not only possible, it's why we are here.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Spiritual, Baby, Powerful

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• Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

  Susan Griffin

  Female, Culture, Kind

  Susan Griffin (2015). “Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature”, p.168, Open Road Media

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• There's just a feeling, when you're just an actor - I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don't understand it, the idea of waiting to get cast, being at the whim of others. I find it incredibly powerless and frightening, so that's why I've been constantly trying to create my own content.

  Nick Kroll

  Ideas, People, Waiting

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. October 29, 2009.

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• We can bring to earth a new world from the ashes of the old because our union transforms us the powerless into the powerful. And I ask you to join together in using all that power-all that strength to make the dreams of all workers and communities around the world come true.

  Andy Stern

  Dream, Powerful, Community

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• Every moment is a moment of choice-to feel powerless or powerful.

  Diana Loomans

  Powerful, Choices, Moments

  Diana Loomans (2011). “100 Ways to Build Self-Esteem and Teach Values”, p.32, H J Kramer

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• Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

  Diogenes

  Law, Speech, Cobwebs

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