Saturday, January 21, 2006
Inspiring Words of the Day
I went to a lecture last night entitled "Re-Building Communities for Sustainable Living: Birthright, Convergence and Abundance," given by Mark Lakeman, co-founder of City Repair. It was a very inspiring talk with lots of really cool slides. City Repair is an organization that helps communities implement projects to turn space into place, and has been involved in such projects as illegal intersection painting, building a 24-hour solar-powered tea station (maintained by neighbors), and other really cool things. Anyway, the quote I pulled out from the evening that was the most inspiring, and possibly said the most about the society in which we live today and its receptivity to certain ideas and practices, was: "If you want to change the world, you've got to stop asking permission." I like it.
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Fits well with "Government is not for the benefit of the governed" (unknown origin) and "Is that not the meaning of all law? To uphold the status of the mighty, but without resort to war, tumult, death and destruction?" (Julian Rathbone, The Last English King).
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