Quotes by Activists - Page 3

There are limits to self-indulgence none to self-restraint.
Mahatma Gandhi
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature. ... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His works.
Helen Keller
Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written.
Alice Walker
Creativity is inventing experimenting growing taking risks breaking rules making mistakes and having fun.
Mary Lou Cook
To gain that which is worth having it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Bernadette Devlin
Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.
Sonia Johnson
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
Delores Ibarruri
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.
Helen Keller
It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.
Sonia Johnson
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
We love because it is the only true adventure.
Nikki Giovanni
For me writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) 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
I know that I haven't powers enough to divide myself into one who earns and one who creates.
Tillie Olsen
It is healthier in any case to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's "mature" critics often are.
Alice Walker
I argue that we deserve the choice to do whatever we want with our faces and bodies without being punished by an ideology that is using attitudes economic pressure and even legal judgments regarding women's appearance to undermine us psychologically and politically.
Naomi Wolf
When a just cause reaches its flood-tide as ours has done ... whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power.
Carrie Chapman Catt
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
Sonia Johnson
I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
Helen Keller
Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it.
Simone Weil
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.
Joan Baez
When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.
Betty Friedan
It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour his religion his soul and lay the foundation for that empire's fall or its regeneration.
Mahatma Gandhi
I'm not ok - you're not ok and that's ok.
Rev. William Sloane Coffin
I consider myself a Hindu Christian Moslem Jew Buddhist and Confucian.
Mahatma Gandhi
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10 000 people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
Science may have found a cure for most evils: but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
Maggie Kuhn
We take our shape it is true within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
James Baldwin
Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
Alan Paton
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
We must look for the opportunity in every difficulty instead of being paralyzed at the thought of the difficulty in every opportunity.
Walter E. Cole
What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises others make the decision.
Jeannette Rankin
It is a great shock at the age of 5 or 6 to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.
James Baldwin
Some pray to marry the man they love my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.
Rose Pastor Stokes
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.
Mahatma Gandhi
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
Grace Paley
Live as if you like yourself and it may happen.
Marge Piercy
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller
Our lives preserved. How it was and how it will be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.
Toni Cade Bambara
If you don't like the way the world is you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
Marian Wright Edelman
If you make fun of bad persons you make yourself beneath them. ... Be kind to bad and good for you don't know your own heart.
Sarah Winnemucca
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Helen Keller
When one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
Helen Keller
We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.
Dolores Huerta
You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.
Jerry Rubin
Lifting as they climb onward and upward they go struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of their desires may burst into glorious fruition ere long.
Mary Church Terrell
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Helen Keller
I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.
Muriel Rukeyser
When we do the best that we can we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.
Helen Keller
A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
Marge Piercy
Whenever something good happens write it down. Buy a special notebook . . . and use it to list all the good in your life.
Peter McWilliams
Positive thoughts (joy happiness fulfillment achievement worthiness) have positive results (enthusiasm calm well-being ease energy love). - Negative thoughts (judgment unworthiness mistrust resentment fear) produce negative results (tension anxiety alienation anger fatigue).
Peter McWilliams
I do not want the peace which pass-eth understanding I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.
Daniel Berrigan
Patience has its limits. Take it too far and it's cowardice.
George Jackson
While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.
Audre Lorde