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  1. Chris Hedges _ Days of Destruction, Days of

    We extract one hundred tons of coal from the earth every two seconds in the United States, and about seventy percent of that coal comes from strip mines and mountaintop removal, which began in 1970."
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  2. Chris Hedges _ Days of Destruction, Days of

    The sweats teach you that you can't carry grudges, you can't carry hatred in your heart. It'll make you sick, so you have to learn to forgive,
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    the sack of kittens sinking in the icy creek increases the cold
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  4. Chris Hedges _ Days of Destruction, Days of

    A culture," the poet W. H. Auden observed, "is no better than its woods."
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    it has enriched a tiny global elite that has no loyalty to the nation-state. These corporations, if we use the language of patriotism, are traitors.
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  6. Chris Hedges _ Days of Destruction, Days of

    We do have a grand strategy," says Zeese, who was the spokesman for Ralph Nader's 2004 presidential campaign. "Nonviolent movements shift power by attacking the columns that hold the power structure in place. Those columns are the military, police, media, business, workers, youth, faith groups, NGOs, and civil servants. Every time we deal with the police, we have that in mind. The goal is not to hit them, hit them, hit them, and weaken them. The goal is to pull people from those columns to our side. We want the police to know that we understand they're not the 1 percent. The goal is not to get every police officer, but to get enough police so that you have a division.
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  7. Chris Hedges _ Days of Destruction, Days of

    When you're violent you undermine everything.
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  8. Chris Hedges _ Days of Destruction, Days of

    Our march toward self-annihilation has already obliterated ninety percent of the large fish in the oceans and wiped out half of the mature tropical forests, the lungs of the planet.25 At this rate, by 2030, only ten percent of the Earth's tropical forests will remain."
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