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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.” Thich Nhat Hanh

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.” Paulo Coelho

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The hopeless don't revolt, because revolution is an act of hope.” Peter Kropotkin

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“We can no longer let the people in power decide what is politically possible. We can no longer let the people in power decide what hope is. Hope is not passive. Hope is not blah, blah, blah. Hope is telling the truth. Hope is taking action. And hope always comes from the people.” Greta Thunberg

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.” Albert Camus

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Each of us is an artist of our days; the greater our integrity and awareness, the more original and creative our time will become.” John O'Donohue

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“Come to us this night, O God, Come to us with light. Speak to us this night, O God, Speak to us your truth. Dwell with us this night, O God, Dwell with us in love.” Celtic Evening Prayer

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Many people are good at talking and bad at understanding.” Teresa of Ávila

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“The most violent element in society is ignorance.” Emma Goldman

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“We are our choices.” Jean Paul Sartre

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step, the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.” Jacques Derrida

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Revolutions, we must remember, are always made by minorities.” Peter Kropotkin

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.” A. J. Muste

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Think for yourself. Question authority.” Timothy Leary

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.” Bell Hooks

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received--only what you have given.” St Francis of Assisi

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Understanding and Love are not two separate things, just one. To develop understanding, look at all living beings with the eyes of compassion. When you understand, you cannot help but love. When you love, you naturally act in a way that can relieve the suffering of people.” Thich Nhat Hanh

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“We cannot live in a world interpreted for us by others. An interpreted world is not a hope. Part of the terror is to take back our listening, to use our own voice, to see our own light.” Hildegard of Bingen

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow…the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified by…privatization, financialization, militarization and criminalization, fashioning a new architecture of punishment, massive human suffering and authoritarianism.” Henry Giroux

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“We no longer value taking the time and space to think about the meaning of behavior. We aim simply to name it and, if it is causing disruption, eliminate it.” Claudia M. Gold, The Silenced Child

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Justice without love is brutality. Love without justice is banality.” John Dominic Crossan

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to a dictatorial and oppressive government?” Gustavo Gutiérrez

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“The more we are brought to the conclusion that society itself is responsible for the anti-social deeds perpetrated in its midst; and that no punishments, no prisons, and no hangmen can diminish the numbers of such deeds; nothing short of a re-organisation of society itself.” Peter Kropotkin

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“The Christian churches and Christianity have nothing in common save in name: they are utterly hostile opposites. The churches are arrogance, violence, usurpation, rigidity, death; Christianity is humility, penitence, submissiveness, progress, life.” Leo Tolstoy

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“There is nothing we can do but love, and, dear God, please enlarge our hearts to love each other, to love our neighbor, to love our enemy as our friend.” Dorothy Day

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“A church that does not provoke any crisis, preach a gospel that does not unsettle, proclaim a word of God that does not get under anyone's skin or a word of God that does not touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed: what kind of gospel is that?” Oscar A. Romero

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“The cross can heal and hurt; it can be empowering and liberating but also enslaving and oppressive.” James H Cone

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“The way out is not ideological propaganda and political ‘sloganizing,’ but the critical effort through which people take themselves in hand and become agents of curiosity—investigators and subjects in an ongoing process of quest for the revelation of the ‘why’ of things and facts.” Paulo Freire

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Why, words, did I let you get out? I have often been sorry that I have spoken, never that I have been silent.” Benedicta Ward

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“God before me, God behind me, God above me, God beneath me. I on your path O God You, O God, on my way. In the twisting’s of the road In the currents of the river Be with me by day Be with me by night Be with me by day and by night.” Celtic prayer from Iona

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Any theology that is indifferent to the theme of liberation is not Christian theology.” James H. Cone

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Ignoring the poor is to show contempt for both God and humanity.” Phillip Michael Garner

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“Think for yourself. Question authority.” Timothy Leary

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people.” Timothy Leary

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“The further the technical mechanism develops that allows us to escape natural necessity, the more we are subjected to artificial technical necessities.” Jacques Ellul

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.” Leo Tolstoy

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“The city, which was owned by an oligarchy of business men, being nominally ruled by the people, a huge army of graft was necessary for the purpose of effecting the transfer of power.” Upton Sinclair, The Jungle

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“I feel that if we don't take seriously the ways in which racism is embedded in structures of institutions, if we assume that there must be an identifiable racist who is the perpetrator, then we won't ever succeed in eradicating racism.” Angela Y. Davis

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“I am interested in trying to awaken educators to a realization that transformations are conceivable, that learning is stimulated by a sense of future possibility and by a sense of what might be.” Maxine Greene

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“At the heart of any education that matters, is a central question: How can you imagine a future much different than the present, and a future that basically grounds itself in questions of economic, political and social justice?” Henry Giroux

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter.” Mahatma Gandhi

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“It is not difficult, indeed, to see the absurdity of naming a few men and saying to them, "Make laws regulating all our spheres of activity, although not one of you knows anything about them!” Pyotr Kropotkin

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military….No matter what the circumstances, the worst betrayal will always be to subordinate ourselves to this apparatus and to trample underfoot, in its service, all human values in ourselves and in others.” Simone Weil

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.” Jean-Paul Sartre

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.” Friedrich Frobel

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation.” Paulo Freire

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“And, by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, the poor, of the destitute--the rights of the worthy and the unworthy—we can, in our small way, begin to change the world." Dorothy Day

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Keith Pentz @menno1954.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

“When deeds speak, words are nothing.” Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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