Doris "Granny D" Haddock Professions : Political activist Born : January 24, 1910 Died : March 9, 2010 Browse All Authors Top 15 quotes by Doris "Granny D" Haddock Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love. Doris "Granny D" Haddock compassion truth success If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized. Doris "Granny D" Haddock splits meaningful two There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear. Doris "Granny D" Haddock fear two world Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks, special subsidies and special regulations? That money would be available for health and education and building bridges. Doris "Granny D" Haddock health money bridges Courage is freedom, and freedom is joy. Be fully who you are, letting the world get used to you - it will! Find a loving community of friends who support your ever-flowering growth, which is a lifetime proposition. Doris "Granny D" Haddock support community change Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do. Doris "Granny D" Haddock democracy Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting. Doris "Granny D" Haddock towns people interesting I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws. Doris "Granny D" Haddock car greed law We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-governance. Doris "Granny D" Haddock government self kindness Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another. Doris "Granny D" Haddock life-and-love self kindness Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money. Doris "Granny D" Haddock money fighting thinking Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions of our modern life can accumulate to the point where our society finds itself bombing other people for their oil, or supporting dictators who torture whole populations - all so that our unbalanced interests might be served. Doris "Granny D" Haddock oil stress people I may have lost the election but I have not lost my reason to live. Doris "Granny D" Haddock I want to plant a few more seeds here and there before they plant me. Doris "Granny D" Haddock I, for one, am certainly going to continue to raise a little hell. Doris "Granny D" Haddock Similar Authors Asmaa Mahfouz political-activist Amy Carter political-activist Abdullah Ocalan political-activist H. L. Hunt political-activist Frances M. Beal political-activist Ed Crane political-activist All Authors
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