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"36 Naomi Klein Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 8 May 1970 | Author | Activist | Filmmaker |

Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.

Hope Never Trickled Up
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Fear Fill Filled Hates
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
Africa Because Creditors Investors
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That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.
Core Good He How
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I am not saying Russia is not important, but Trump's base is very well defended against that: 'the liberal media is out to get him', 'it's fake news', and all the rest.

Against Am Base Defended
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If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be.

David Duke Got Pen
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
Among Any Compromise Contact
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There have been presidents with business interests before. But there has never been a fully commercialized global brand as a sitting U.S. president. That is unprecedented.

Been Before Brand Business
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The Trump Organization is paid millions of dollars by these developers for the privilege of putting the Trump name on those towers.

Developers Dollars Millions Millions Of Dollars
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I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park.

Apprentice Backyard Contestants Couple
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
Act Bridge Doctrine I Can
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I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'

Bad Bad Habit Beats Because
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What I hope is less about what the greens will do but what people who don't consider themselves part of the green movement will do.
About Consider Green Greens
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The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it.

About Abstract Boy Certainly
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I think I would say that there is absolutely no way to reconcile an austerity agenda with climate action. Our political class needs to understand that the fight against austerity and the fight for climate action are the same fight.

Absolutely Action Against Agenda
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Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right?
Himself Impeachment Maybe Out
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That's the big mistake the environmental movement made - 'We'll scare the hell out of you, and you'll become an activist'.
Activist Become Big Big Mistake
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I've never seen a movement spread as fast as the fossil fuel divestment movement.
Fast Fossil Fossil Fuel Fuel
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'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.
Blue Bolt External Like
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The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'.
Always Customer Listen Me
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Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.
Essence Nike Sports Through
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We live in an interconnected world, in an interconnected time, and we need holistic solutions. We have a crisis of inequality, and we need climate solutions that solve that crisis.

Climate Crisis Holistic Inequality
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It's really, really hard to get in rooms with people you don't usually work with and try to find common ground.
Common Common Ground Find Get
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The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift.

Collaboration Come Coming Cooperation
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Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds.

Believe Crowds Even I Believe
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When I feel my blood sugar getting off, I drink a glass of kale juice. It's so disgusting you don't want to eat anything!

Anything Blood Disgusting Drink
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I was the rebel in our family and a child of the eighties. That meant going to the mall.

Child Eighties Family Going
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Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'

Baby Before Had Hand
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One shouldn't gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious.

Gamble Irreplaceable Precious
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

About Again Book Books
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What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up.

Build Hard How Infrastructure
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2007, according to a Harris poll, 71 percent of Americans believed that climate change was real, that it was human caused.

According American Believed Caused
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.

Anything Barrier Biggest Country
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I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change.
About Change Depressed Hopeless
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.

About Feeling Like People
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.

About Am For The People I Am
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Naomi Klein Quotes & Sayings