Australian - Politician | December 27, 1944 -
I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.
Bob Brown
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I will be Green until the day I die, if not for a long time after.
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For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
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Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.
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I have seen such an immense change from the total repression and criminality of homosexuality in my lifetime. It does make me much more buoyant and optimistic about the future. If that change can occur in that time there's hope for many other changes.
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Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well.'
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I'm a very great non-violent character. I would never resort to violence to change anything.
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I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.
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