quotes about Ubuntu
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If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.
-- Adrienne RichSource : Adrienne Rich (1994). “Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose 1979-1985”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company
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To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.
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When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
-- Alice PaulSource : "The Women’s Deliberation Movement" by Shelley Hendrix Reynolds, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 7, 2010.
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I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
-- Alice Walker -
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What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
-- Alice WalkerSource : Alice Walker (1990). “The Temple of My Familiar”
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It just seems clear to me that as long as we are all here, it's pretty clear that the struggle is to share the planet, rather than divide it.
-- Alice Walker -
There is a word in South Africa - ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us,
-- Barack Obama -
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.
-- Desmond Tutu -
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One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole World. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.
-- Desmond Tutu -
You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.
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I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.
-- Donald Knuth -
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
-- Dorothy Thompson -
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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
-- Dorothy Thompson -
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
-- Elizabeth Cady StantonSource : Sir Hugh Walpole (1940). “Roman Fountain”
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador attain liberty, and inspired our forefathers to shed their blood for the United States' independence, cannot die. Today, this spirit of solidarity must and will empower all of us to rebuild Haiti.
-- Jean-Bertrand AristideSource : Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. February 10, 2010.
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This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
-- Leonard BernsteinSource : Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor
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Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
-- Maggie Kuhn -
Chef and Ubuntu are often inseparable in serious server deployments, making mutual integration a must for our users. We're excited to offer Chef as part of the Ubuntu distribution and to deliver easy bare metal provisioning with MAAS and Chef.
-- Mark Shuttleworth -
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening.
-- Marshall McLuhan -
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
-- Martin Luther -
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Conflict is inevitable but combat is optional.
-- Max Lucado -
Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
-- Oscar Hammerstein II -
Ubuntu is about a community coming together to help one another.
-- Paul Pierce -
We first fought... in the name of religion, then Communism, and now in the name of drugs and terrorism. Our excuses for global domination always change.
-- Serj TankianSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The common bond of humanity and decency that we share is stronger than any conflict, any adversity. Fighting for your convictions is important. But finding peace is paramount. Knowing when to fight and when to seek peace is wisdom. Ubuntu was right.
-- Wes MooreSource : Wes Moore (2010). “The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates”, p.168, Spiegel & Grau
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The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies
-- Basil O'Connor -
It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
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We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.
-- Madeleine L'Engle -
There are weapons that are simply thoughts. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy.
-- Rod SerlingSource : The Twilight Zone (television show), 4 Mar. 1960