Frances Moore Lappé Quotes About Community

• Es un momento extraordinario para estar vivo. Somos las primeras personas de nuestro planeta que tenemos opciones reales: podemos seguir matándonos unos a otros, aniquilando otras especies, echando a perder nuestro nido. Sin embargo, en todos los continentes está surgiendo una revolución de la dignidad humana. Está volviendo a unir la comunidad y nuestros lazos con la Tierra. Así que tenemos elección. Podemos elegir la muerte o la vida.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Time, Real, Ties

• I also believe that it's almost impossible for people to change alone. We need to join with others who will push us in our thinking and challenge us to do things we didn't believe ourselves capable of.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Creer, Pensar, Gente

  "Frances Moore Lappe: Diet for a Small Planet". Plowboy Interview with Pat Stone, www.motherearthnews.com. March/April 1982.

• Individualidad no significa sólo individualismo, estar solo. Significa desarrollar los dones únicos de cada uno y ser capaz de compartirlos para disfrute propio y de los demás.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Mean, Unique, Community

  Frances Moore Lappé (1991). “Rediscovering America's Values”

• Food has always been at the center of community bonding, of family life, and simple pleasure, but it is becoming more and more an obsession, a source of pain.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Pain, Simple, Community

  Fuente: www.yesmagazine.org

• What we do in the book my daughter Anna and I wrote, Hope's Edge, is to give people a glimpse of food as a source of nourishment, health, and community, rather than a threat. That means reconnecting with food as it comes from the Earth and with those who produce food.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Daughter, Book, Mean

  Fuente: www.yesmagazine.org

• Many families participate in the Community Supported Agriculture movement, which allows a family to buy shares in a farmer's produce so that they know where their food is coming from, and they can take their families out and see the farm and meet the farmer. That movement has helped create a new culture around food.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Agriculture, Community, Movement

  Fuente: www.yesmagazine.org

• What we see today is a world movement represented by the World Social Forum, involving all sorts of interactions across cultures, not to create some new "ism," but to learn as we walk and to create more democratic forms of social organization that re-embed economic life in community.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Organization, Community, Isms

  Fuente: www.yesmagazine.org

• On the one hand, our social nature is our greatest beauty - it means that we have natural empathy and sympathy. But our social nature also means that we may let ourselves be controlled by the judgments of others, precisely because we care so much about our status in community.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Mean, Hands, Empathy

  Fuente: www.yesmagazine.org

• The problem is that our whole tribe - if you will, the larger community of humanity itself - is on a death march ecologically and in terms of the intensification of violence and conflict.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Community, Humanity, Violence

  Fuente: www.yesmagazine.org

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