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2519 Activist Quotes

I've found that festivals are a relatively painless way to meet people and make a few points that need making, without having to hit them over the head with too many speeches.

Festivals Few Found Having
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I dream for a world which is free of child labour, a world in which every child goes to school. A world in which every child gets his rights.

Child Dream Every Free
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Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

Beautiful Child Childhood Eye
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I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart.

Apart Believe Come Communist
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.

Child Divine Every Fundamental
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When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.

Guitar Half Instrument Life
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Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth, and other social problems.

Child Child Labor Growth Illiteracy
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The fight against child slavery is the fight against traditional mindset, policy deficit, and lack of accountability and urgency for children across the globe.

Accountability Across Against Child
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.

Ages Been Biggest Childhood
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.

Action Attention Community Concrete
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Let us unite the world through the compassion for our children.
Children Compassion Let Us Our
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Every single minute matters, every single child matters, every single childhood matters.

Child Childhood Every Matters
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I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

Call Education Exploitation Liberty
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I am representing here - the sound of silence. The cry of innocence. And, the face of invisibility. I represent millions of those children who are left behind, and that's why I have kept an empty chair here as a reminder.

Am Behind Chair Children
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I have come here only to share the voices and dreams of our children - because they are all our children.

Because Children Come Dreams
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Learning from the experiences of our ancestors, let us together create knowledge for all that benefits all.

Ancestors Benefits Create Experiences
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
Biggest Biggest Challenge Challenge Crisis
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The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people.

Common Courage Enthusiasm Entire
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From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.

Believe Believe In Yourself Create Experience
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We still have a soft approach on the perpetrators of crimes like worst forms of child labour.

Approach Child Crimes Forms
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More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.

Accepted Against Any Away
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Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

Bound Child Children Cultures
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
Accept Ever Freedom Quest
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At about an age when most children start full time schooling, hundreds of thousands of their contemporaries start a lifetime of drudgery in factories and fields, working 12-16 hours daily.

About Age Children Contemporaries
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Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.

Access Achieved Cannot Child
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.

Any Cannot Children Community
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!

Compassion Justice Knowledge Let Us
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Today it is time for every child to have a right to life, right to freedom, right to health, right to education, safety, the right to dignity, right to equality, and right to peace.

Child Dignity Education Equality
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Today, in every wave of every ocean, I see our children playing and dancing. Today, in every plant, tree, and mountain, I see our children growing in freedom.

Children Dancing Every Freedom
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I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.

About Attempts Bit Early
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I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.

Catch Flight Flop Get
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One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.

Appeals Artist Being Enables
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I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.

Accept Another Artist Every
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I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.

Bit Copyright Cynical Ever
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I didn't leave the band to go solo so much as to stop feeling like a production item.

Band Feeling Go Item
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You have independent films and independent music, but you don't have independent theme parks - I think, in a way, Burning Man is as close, probably, as you get.

Burning Close Films Get
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What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.

Bunch Get Good Happen
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Art suggests stuff that is traded like money, that is kept in galleries and that belongs to the elite, whereas experience is something that everybody has in the course of living.

Art Belongs Course Elite
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Italian food is my favorite food. It's the most sophisticated eating system.

Eating Favorite Food Italian
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A record for us that sells 50,000 is a good record, and 100,000 is a serious hit.
Good GoodRecord Hit Record
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If we grab technology and adapt it and make it work for us, it will work in one way, whereas if we just leave it, it will stay in the hands of big corporations and governments, who have other agendas.

Adapt Agendas Big BigCorporations
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I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.

Around Body Change Changed
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I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.

About Change Colors Emotional
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In some ways, I'm just a visual person.
Just Person Some Visual
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As we become so visible in the digital world and leave an endless trail of data behind us, exactly who has our data and what they do with it becomes increasingly important.

Become Becomes Behind Data
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I was very happy to learn Oliver Stone had decided to make a film about Edward Snowden and believe this is a powerful and inspiring film.

About Believe Decided Edward
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There's a Slow Food movement. I think I'm part of the Slow Music movement.

Food IThink Movement Music
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Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.

Cathartic Condition Genuinely Happy
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As you get older, some top notes drop off and bottom notes appear, which I quite like. You listen to Leonard Cohen or Johnny Cash, and you see the advantage of the lower end.

Advantage Appear Bottom Cash
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I'm often guilty of overcooking and too much arrangement and throwing too much at it. But I think as I get older, I'm learning better when to be empty and when to be full.

Arrangement Better Empty Full
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