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  1. John Berger _ Hold Everything Dear:

    Democracy is a proposal {rarely realized} about decision making; it has little to do with election campaigns. Its promise is that political decisions be made after, and in the light of, consultation with the governed. This is dependent upon the governed being adequately informed about the issues in question, and upon the decision-makers having the capacity and will to listen and take account of what they have heard. Democracy should not be confused with the 'freedom' of binary choices, the publication of opinion polls or the crowding of people into statistics. These are its pretences. Today the fundamental decisions, which effect the unnecessary pain increasingly suffered across the planet, have been and are taken unilaterally without any open consultation or participation. Both
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  2. John Berger _ Hold Everything Dear:

    The precondition for thinking politically on a global scale is to see the unity of the unnecessary suffering taking place. *
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  3. John Berger _ Hold Everything Dear:

    Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich,' Peter Ustinov the playwright recently observed with succinct clarity. Although
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  4. John Berger _ Hold Everything Dear:

    This is written in the night. In war the dark is on nobody's side, in love the dark confirms that we are together.
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  5. John Berger _ Hold Everything Dear:

    But for the overcrowded, for those who have little or nothing except, sometimes, courage and love, hope works differently. Hope is then something to bite on, to put between the teeth. Don't forget this. Be a realist. With hope between the teeth comes the strength to carry on even when fatigue never lets up, comes strength, when necessary, to choose not to shout at the wrong moment, comes the strength above all not to howl. A person, with hope between her or his teeth, is a brother or sister who commands respect.
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    Hold Everything Dear"
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