Quotes by Activists - Page 2

Morality is contraband in war.
Mahatma Gandhi
A couple of times a day I sit quietly and visualize my body fighting the AIDS virus. It's the same as me sitting and seeing myself hit the perfect serve. I did that often when I was an athlete.
Arthur Ashe
To the lack of incentive to effort which is the awful shadow under which we live may be traced the wreck and ruin of scores of colored youth.
Mary Church Terrell
Dreams are the sources of action the meeting and the end a resting place among the flight of things.
Muriel Rukeyser
Our visions begin with our desires.
Audre Lorde
It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi
At home I am a nice guy but I don't want the world to know. Humble people I've found don't go very far.
Muhammad Ali
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
Simone Weil
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
James Baldwin
Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.
Marge Piercy
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
We must not... ignore the small daily differences we can make which over time add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.
Marian Wright Edelman
Not all things are blest but the seeds of all things are blest.
Muriel Rukeyser
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin
Reappraise the past reevaluate where we've been clarify where we are and predict or anticipate where we are headed.
Toni Cade Bambara
Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Simone Weil
The universe is made of stories not of atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser
Heirlooms we don't have in our family. But stories we've got.
Rose Chernin
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
John Beecher
The future is made of the same stuff as the present.
Simone Weil
Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task but you will succeed if you persevere and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.
Helen Keller
In small settlements everyone knows your affairs. In the big city everyone does not - only those you choose to tell will know about you. This is one of the attributes of cities that is precious to most city people.
Jane Jacobs
We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.
Gloria Steinem
There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
Anita Roddick
The journey is my home.
Muriel Rukeyser
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead (2.) it produces a sense of accomplishment and once in a while pride and (3) it's frightening.
Gloria Steinem
Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though it's intimate and psychological-resistant to generalization a mystery of the individual soul.
Barbara Ehrenreich
The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.
Gloria Steinem
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened vision cleared ambition inspired and success achieved.
Helen Keller
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us it's in everyone.
Nelson Mandela
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Helen Keller
Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
George Jackson
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings.
Ebenezer Elliott
The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.
Margaret Sanger
Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net you can be sure I want the ball.
Billie Jean King
Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.
Alice Walker
It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself.
Betty Friedan
Getting fit is a political act-you are taking charge of your life.
Jane Fonda
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.
Helen Keller
Whether there are innately female leadership styles ... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.
Charlotte Bunch
I hear the singing of the lives of women. The clear mystery the offering the pride.
Muriel Rukeyser
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards becoming a champion.
Billie Jean King
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
Julia Ward Howe
The highest result of education is tolerance.
Helen Keller
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity.
Nikki Giovanni
Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Helen Keller
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller
I've never had a humble opinion in my life. If you're going to have one why bother to be humble about it?
Joan Baez
Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
Gloria Steinem
Don't buy the garbage that you're over the hill at fifty. This country makes such a big thing about age particularly if you're a woman. What I think is relevant is your experience what you have to offer. I hope people will recognize that and keep going.
Molly Yard
Humility is attentive patience.
Simone Weil
Such to me is the new image of aging growth in self and service for all mankind.
Ethel Percy Andrus
Self-esteem isn't everything it's just that there's nothing without it.
Gloria Steinem
I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.
Wilma Pearl Mankiller
I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller
No person has the right to rain on your dreams.
Marian Wright Edelman
I seldom think about my limitations and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times but it is vague like a breeze among flowers.
Helen Keller
I'm not OK you're not OK-and that's OK.
William Sloane Coffin
I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken made verbal and shared even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
Audre Lorde