Michael Downey 🇺🇳 @downey@floss.social
FLOSS.social admin. Director of Community, DIAL #OpenSource Center at United Nations Foundation. LibreHealth steering cmte, OSUOSL advisory brd, OSI adv circle.
"To drift is to be in hell, to be in heaven is to steer."
- George Bernard Shaw #quotes
"To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination."
- Bell Hooks
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"It is good to dream, but it is better to dream and work. Faith is mighty, but action with faith is mightier. Desiring is helpful, but work and desire are invincible."
- Thomas Robert Gaines #quotes
"When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change. But they cannot rest on just that change. It has to continue."
- Rosa Parks #quotes
"If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."
- Shirley Chisholm #quotes
"To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation."
- Chinese Proverb
"A 'no' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble."
- Mahatma Gandhi #quotes
"If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can't survive."
- Brené Brown
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"It's easier to say what we believe than to be what we believe."
- Robert Anthony
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"Don't lose faith in humanity. Think of all the people in the world who have never played you a single nasty trick."
- Elbert Hubbard
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"Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional."
- H. Witte
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"Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy, and mutual valuing."
- Rollo May
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"Understanding is a two-way street."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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"To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing."
- Raymond Williams #quotes
"I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field."
- Clifford Green
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"Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar."
- D. H. Lawrence
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"When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"Community cannot long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond: their unknown and undiscovered sisters and brothers."
- Howard Thurman
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FLOSS.social admin. Director of Community, DIAL #OpenSource Center at United Nations Foundation. LibreHealth steering cmte, OSUOSL advisory brd, OSI adv circle.
