Bob Brown Quotes


Real life security and contentment come not from putting a gun in the cupboard, but from taking a role in the world's future.


Citations

Brown, Bob. Memo for a Saner World. Penguin Books, 2004.

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Both the British and the Belgians were vying for Katanga to become a part of their empire. Msiri, it’s king was a cruel tyrant, was hated by his people, many of whom he had had murdered. Each night he slept in a different hut for fear of assassination. The appeal was typical of European powers “persuading” African potentates to join their empires.


Bob Brown
Bob Brown
  • Born: December 27, 1944
  • Nationality: Australian
  • Profession: Physician

Robert James Brown is a former Australian politician, medical doctor and environmentalist. He was a senator and the parliamentary leader of the Australian Greens. Brown was elected to the Australian Senate on the Tasmanian Greens ticket, joining with sitting Greens Western Australia senator Dee Margetts to form the first group of Australian Greens senators following the 1996 federal election. He was re-elected in 2001 and in 2007. He was the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia and the first openly gay leader of an Australian political party.