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Derrick Jensen Quote: “We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much integrity as possible, but rather to confront and take down those systems.”

51. “We can follow the example of those who remembered that the role of an activist is not to navigate systems of oppressive power with as much integrity as possible, but rather to confront and take down those systems.”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home.”

52. “If we wish to stop the atrocities, we need merely to step away from the isolation. There is a whole world waiting for us, ready to welcome us home.”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.”

53. “Civilization is based on a clearly defined and widely accepted yet often unarticulated hierarchy. Violence done by those higher on the hierarchy to those lower is nearly always invisible, that is, unnoticed. When it is noticed, it is fully rationalized. Violence done by those lower on the hierarchy to those higher is unthinkable, and when it does occur is regarded with shock, horror, and the fetishization of the victims.”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “All writers are propagandists.”

54. “All writers are propagandists.”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “Do you ever have those moments where suddenly you make a quantum jump in understanding, where you see the world so differently that you cannot imagine how you could have perceived it any other way before? Do you have those times when this new understanding makes you feel as though up until that moment you must have been deluded or asleep or just plain stupid? I.”

55. “Do you ever have those moments where suddenly you make a quantum jump in understanding, where you see the world so differently that you cannot imagine how you could have perceived it any other way before? Do you have those times when this new understanding makes you feel as though up until that moment you must have been deluded or asleep or just plain stupid? I.”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “As is true for most people I know, I’ve always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?”

56. “As is true for most people I know, I’ve always loved learning. As is also true for most people I know, I always hated school. Why is that?”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.”

57. “To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “I saw a stop sign, and it occurred to me that just as no one expects a stop sign to stop a car, I shouldn’t expect words to substitute for experience. That’s not their job, although words certainly can be misused in that way. The job of words is to direct us toward experience, to round out experience, to facilitate experience, and to give us ways to share at least pale shadows of that experience with those we love. And the job of words is to help us learn to be – and act – human.”

58. “I saw a stop sign, and it occurred to me that just as no one expects a stop sign to stop a car, I shouldn’t expect words to substitute for experience. That’s not their job, although words certainly can be misused in that way. The job of words is to direct us toward experience, to round out experience, to facilitate experience, and to give us ways to share at least pale shadows of that experience with those we love. And the job of words is to help us learn to be – and act – human.”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.”

59. “If your community is founded on an injustice, that injustice cannot be questioned.”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “I think it’s very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we’re doing isn’t working, clearly.”

60. “I think it’s very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we’re doing isn’t working, clearly.”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “We can talk all we want about conservation biology and about the use of science to measure biodiversity,45 but in the real, physical world the real, physical effects of science on real, living nonhumans has been nothing short of atrocious.”

61. “We can talk all we want about conservation biology and about the use of science to measure biodiversity,45 but in the real, physical world the real, physical effects of science on real, living nonhumans has been nothing short of atrocious.”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “Because their supremacist perspective is unquestioned – and the supremacists would prefer it remain that way – all questioning of that supremacism by definition will be classed as speculation, and all speculation on that subject will be discouraged. Of.”

62. “Because their supremacist perspective is unquestioned – and the supremacists would prefer it remain that way – all questioning of that supremacism by definition will be classed as speculation, and all speculation on that subject will be discouraged. Of.”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.”

63. “Learning has to come from doing, not intellectualizing.”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “I waited for him to come out. He didn’t. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself to die.”

64. “I waited for him to come out. He didn’t. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I had readied myself to kill him did not mean that he had readied himself to die.”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “Green cars could be made of pure refined nonsense and fueled by bright green hot air combined with the broken and destroyed dreams of every nonhuman on earth, and they’d still be destructive.”

65. “Green cars could be made of pure refined nonsense and fueled by bright green hot air combined with the broken and destroyed dreams of every nonhuman on earth, and they’d still be destructive.”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or another. But the hard parts will be your parts, they won’t be hard parts other people have imposed on you for their own reasons, or maybe for no reason at all. And your ownership of them – your responsibility to and for them – makes all the difference in the world.”

66. “It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or another. But the hard parts will be your parts, they won’t be hard parts other people have imposed on you for their own reasons, or maybe for no reason at all. And your ownership of them – your responsibility to and for them – makes all the difference in the world.”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “Mainstream environmentalists now overwhelmingly prioritize saving industrial civilization over saving life on the planet.”

67. “Mainstream environmentalists now overwhelmingly prioritize saving industrial civilization over saving life on the planet.”

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Derrick Jensen Quote: “Here’s another definition I like, for different reasons: “An act of violence would be any act that inflicts physical or psychological harm on another.”388 I like this one because its inclusiveness reminds us of the ubiquity of violence, and thus I think demystifies violence a bit. So, you say you oppose violence? Well, in that case you oppose life. You oppose all change. The important question becomes: What types of violence do you oppose?”

68. “Here’s another definition I like, for different reasons: “An act of violence would be any act that inflicts physical or psychological harm on another.”388 I like this one because its inclusiveness reminds us of the ubiquity of violence, and thus I think demystifies violence a bit. So, you say you oppose violence? Well, in that case you oppose life. You oppose all change. The important question becomes: What types of violence do you oppose?”

— Derrick Jensen

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