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Eleanor Roosevelt: “Never allow a person to tell you 'no' who doesn't have the power to say 'yes.'”

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Rachel Naomi Remen: “The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”

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Laozi (Lao Tzu): “He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”

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Dwight D. Eisenhower: “Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.”

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Carter G. Woodson: “When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.”

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Frank L. Baum: “You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.” more

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Soren Kierkegaard: “If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so foaming, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”

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Casey Miller and Kate Swift: “From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power.”

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Robin Morgan: “Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.”

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Margaret J. Wheatley: “Love in organizations, then, is the most potent source of power we have available.”

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Jim Hightower: “America was not built by conformists, but by mutineers.”

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William Blum: “The 'trickle-down' theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.”

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Aldous Huxley: “A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude.”

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Arnold Toynbee: “The best safeguard against fascism is to establish social justice to the maximum extent possible.”

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Elie Wiesel: “I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

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Abraham Lincoln: “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow.”

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Dr. Wade Noble: “Power is the ability to define reality and to have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own. ”

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Laozi (Lao Tzu): “The people starve because those above them eat too much tax-grain. That is the only reason why they starve.”

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Frances Fox Piven: “I believe in the necessity for struggle by people at the bottom of any society.”

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H. L. Mencken: “I believe in only one thing: liberty, but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”

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Oprah Winfrey: “Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”

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Stephen Vincent Benet: “We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.”

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Marshall Rosenberg: “You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had. ”

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Jonathan Swift: “Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.”

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Thomas Alva Edison: “I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”

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Foucault: “Where there is power, there is resistance.”

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Barbara de Angelis: “No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”

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Beatrix Potter: “All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.”

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Madame de Stael: “Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.”

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Audre Lorde: “My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I'm going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.”

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