Petra Kelly Quotes

• La paz no es sólo la ausencia de destrucción masiva, sino una condición interna y externa positiva en la que las personas son libres para poder desarrollar todo su potencial.

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  Positivity, Mass Destruction, People

  Petra Karin Kelly, Glenn D. Paige (1992). “Nonviolence Speaks to Power”, Matsunaga Inst for Peace

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• Al igual que la mentalidad que sitúa a los hombres por encima de las mujeres, a los blancos por encima de los negros y a los ricos por encima de los pobres, la mentalidad que sitúa a los humanos por encima de la naturaleza es un delirio disfuncional.

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  Men, Mind, Rich

  Petra Karin Kelly (1994). “Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence”, Parallax Pr

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• Nosotros, la generación que afronta el próximo siglo, podemos añadir el solemne mandato: "Si no hacemos lo imposible, nos enfrentaremos a lo impensable".

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  Add, Generations, Next

  Petra Karin Kelly, Glenn D. Paige (1992). “Nonviolence Speaks to Power”, Matsunaga Inst for Peace

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• We cannot feast on global resources while the world's poor struggle to survive on inhospitable lands.
  It is as simple as that.
  It is the rich who are making the world poorer.
  Environment and Poverty are one crisis, not two.

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  Struggle, Simple, Land

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• Practically every violent conflict or social change has proved that violence unleashes violence in return.

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  Violence, Return, Conflict

  Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.31, South End Press

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• Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

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  Mother, Taken, Raw Materials

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• The vision I see is not only a movement of direct democracy, of self- and co-determination and non-violence, but a movement in which politics means the power to love and the power to feel united on the spaceship Earth.

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  Determinación, Media, Ser

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• Un sistema industrial basado en la ilusión de una expansión ilimitada consumirá, con el tiempo, su propia base de sustentación.

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  Support, Expansion, Limitless

  Petra Karin Kelly (1994). “Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence”, Parallax Pr

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• Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.

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  People, Competition, Environmental

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• A truly free society must not include a peace which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.

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  Peace, Mean, Rights

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• We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of the human species. That means understanding that ... we are all co-inhabitants of this planet.

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  Mean, Understanding, Survival

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• I have hope for the world, although it is ten minutes before Doomsday. Women all over the world are rising up and infusing the anti-nuclear and peace movements with a vitality and creativity never seen before.

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  Creativity, Rising Up, Vitality

  Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.103, South End Press

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• La visión que veo no es sólo un movimiento de democracia directa, de autodeterminación y codeterminación y de no violencia, sino un movimiento en el que la política significa el poder de amar y el poder de sentirse unidos en la nave espacial Tierra... En un mundo que se debate en la violencia y la deshonestidad, el desarrollo ulterior de la no violencia -no sólo como filosofía, sino como forma de vida, como fuerza en las calles, en las plazas de los mercados, fuera de las bases de misiles, dentro de las plantas químicas y dentro de la industria bélica- se convierte en una de las prioridades más urgentes.

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  Determination, Philosophy, War

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• ... the state is not absolute, and loyalty to the state cannot be absolute.

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  Loyalty, Government, States

  Petra Karin Kelly (1994). “Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence”, Parallax Pr

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• Our motto is, 'Be gentle and subversive.'

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  Motto, Gentle, Subversive

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• Overturning patriarchy does not mean replacing men's dominance with women's dominance. That would merely maintain the patriarchal pattern of dominance. We need to transform the pattern itself.

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  Mean, Men, Doe

  Petra Karin Kelly (1994). “Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence”, Parallax Pr

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• The profound political changes we need in order to heal our planet will not come about through fragmented problem solving or intellectual analyses that overlook the deepest yearnings and intuitions of the heart....As we begin to cultivate a rich inner life and experience our connection with all life, we realize how little of what society tells us we need is actually important for our well-being....Green politics must address the spiritual vacuum of industrial society.

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  Spiritual, Heart, Order

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• Power over must be replaced by shared power, by the power to do things, by the discovery of our own strength as opposed to a passive receiving of power exercised by others, often in our name.

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  Discovery, Names, Receiving

  Petra Karin Kelly, Glenn D. Paige (1992). “Nonviolence Speaks to Power”, Matsunaga Inst for Peace

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• The transformation of forests into deserts, fertile earth into sunbaked concrete, and running rivers into silted floodwaters show that only through care for the environment can the livelihoods of those most dependent on it be sustained. We cannot allow economic and environmental concerns to be played off against each other.

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  Running, Rivers, Environmental

  Petra Karin Kelly (1994). “Thinking green!: essays on environmentalism, feminism, and nonviolence”, Parallax Pr

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• Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can always be stepped up.

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  Action, Forget, Behavior

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• I appeal to women not to let themselves become corrupted by male power. Emancipation is something more than a 'ticket' to serve in the army.

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  Army, Males, Tickets

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• European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger towards the Soviet Union in that those missiles could reach the Soviet Union, make it vulnerable within five to six minutes, that it could surgical strikes, strikes into the military infrastructure and that a strike into the military infrastructure could cause in fact World War III, an atomic world war and that this could also be used for first strike, for surgical search, first strike into the Soviet Union.

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  Military, War, Deployment

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• Hacemos un llamamiento a las personas de todo el mundo para que trabajen por la paz, olviden la tranquila comodidad de sus hogares, dejen atrás sus miedos y su sentimiento de impotencia, sus privilegios y posesiones, y se unan a nosotros como participantes activos y colaboradores por la paz.

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  Hogar, Personas, Sentimientos

  Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.74, South End Press

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• Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.

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  Mean, Revolution, Violent

  Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.31, South End Press

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• Pertenezco a los iniciadores de... y en repetidas ocasiones también habíamos pedido el desmantelamiento de la SS-20, pero no los conectamos, esa era la diferencia. No los conectamos porque pensamos que era un paso dado, un paso innecesario por parte de los americanos y añadido por los países miembros de la OTAN.

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  Country, Taken, Differences

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