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" The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action. "
Michael Franti
Action
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" I eat bags and bags of cashews. I've got them in the kitchen, and about ten feet away I've got another bowl on the kitchen table. In my backpack, I've always got a bag of cashews. I started eating them in the airports because that's the one food that you can find in every airport that's actually nutritious. "
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" I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car. "
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" San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here. "
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" You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back. "
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" Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. "
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" I've always found that the poorer the places that I go, the more smiles I see, and the more happiness I see. "
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" We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace. "
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" It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful. "
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" With all the people hating and hurting each other, I don't understand how people could get upset about people of the same sex caring for each other. "
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" When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers. "
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" We have a saying in my house, my kids and my girlfriend. We say, 'Be your best for the greater good, and rock out wherever you are.' "
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" There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day. "
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" Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form. "
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" Our country was founded on immigration. We are all occupying Native American land here. At what point do we say 'It's our land, and nobody else can come here.' "
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" Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good. "
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" Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose. "
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" Every single soul is a poem. "
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" To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up. "
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" When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community. "
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" If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems. "
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" After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do. "
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" I'm not an idealist. I know we're not going to be living in a world that's peace and love all the time. But we can live in a world where we kill each other a lot less. "
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" I really believe that, as an artist, my opportunity to help to bring about awakening is one that should come from a personal process that someone has, and not from me telling somebody that this is the way it is. "
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" Johnny Cash was a rebel, not only just in the musical sense, but he was somebody who was for the people, and an advocate for labor, for workers, for prisoners, people who have been trapped by the criminal justice system. "
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" Investing now in safe-guarding people by helping them to adapt to climate change, will help save money and lives while building resilience. "
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" Power to the peaceful! "
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" Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that. "
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" I don't know if it's so grand that I can change the entire world, but I know that I can help one person. So that's the goal. "
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