Quotes by Activists - Page 34

The story flared, then faded.
Arundhati Roy
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.
Rebecca Solnit
Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death.
Bryant McGill
The 'peace' the gospel brings is never the absence of conflict, but an ineffable divine reassurance within the heart of conflict; a peace that surpasses understanding.
Walter Wink
If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present... gratefully.
Maya Angelou
We can change the world one thought at a time, one child at a time, one family at a time, one community at a time, one city, one state and one country at a time.
Bryant McGill
Let us revolt against the nightmare, and work together for a kinder world.
Bryant McGill
Let the change begin with your choices this very moment.
Bryant McGill
A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled. A child cannot be taught by anyone whose demand, essentially, is that the child repudiate his experience, and all that gives him sustenance.
James Baldwin
Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
Bryant McGill
We also self-inflict violence, because violence is our only way of relating to the world, to others and to ourselves.
Bryant McGill
Rather than communicating blame communicate your standards for proper future treatment.
Bryant McGill
Be a believer in true love. Seek deep communication with others and with yourself.
Bryant McGill
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
Cory Doctorow
One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.
Bryant McGill
When people criticize me for not having any respect for existing structures and institutions, I protest. I say I give institutions and structures and traditions all the respect that I think they deserve. That's usually mighty little, but there are things that I do respect. They have to earn that respect. They have to earn it by serving people. They don't earn it just by age or legality or tradition.
Myles Horton
The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.
Bryant McGill
What we do to others, we do to ourselves..
Bryant McGill
Love and respect changes everything.
Bryant McGill
Rejecting predatory capitalism in America is a way to respect and honor America.
Bryant McGill
Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbour of humanity's great aspirations
Bryant McGill
The roots of all commonwealth are planted in the understanding that we are all the same human beings
Bryant McGill
Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions
Bryant McGill
Every soul is beautiful and precious; is worthy of dignity and respect, and deserving of peace, joy and love.
Bryant McGill
Place your allegiance and respect in what is everlasting and real, not in the transitory and false.
Bryant McGill
By disobeying immoral orders, that individual preserves the institution's highest rank - dignity.
Bryant McGill
Men can never have the true power they were endowed with by creation, until they respect and protect the women and children of the world.
Bryant McGill
We have a responsibility to disobey and violate unjust rules and laws.
Bryant McGill
We must remember that we cannot change others, we can only change ourselves.
Bryant McGill
We must remember that nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care.
Bryant McGill
Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbor of humanity's great aspirations.
Bryant McGill
We must stop treating the environment possessively, and as an expendable commodity.
Bryant McGill
We must protect and share the world.
Bryant McGill
We must resist impulses to attack people, their credibility or their nature, and focus only on sharing our own positive creations, contributions, ideas and solutions.
Bryant McGill
When no one is watching Mother Earth, and most of the time no one is, she sings softly to herself. Certainly no one is watching after her, to the point where she's now calling herself M. Earth, using her first initial only, like the early women writers who did not want their work to be automatically dismissed because of their gender disadvantage. Though she is grand, M. Earth is feeling, perhaps, overly feminine, and therefore vulnerable. Don't even mention the word Gaia; it's such a projection! She thinks she could benefit from a more macho profile, a little kick-ass to make her point. Perhaps a little masculine detachment would be helpful, or a thicker skin. Because, frankly, she's been trampled, poisoned, stripped bare, robbed blind, and blamed for just about everything that's come down the pike. And like all mothers, everyone just assumes she'll always be there for them with open, loving arms, and a cup of hot cocoa. That it will be her pleasure to feed them, lick their wounds, and clean a load or two of their dirty laundry. She's looking for a little more respect.
Sharon Weil
The truth is that the world doesn't have much use or respect for "do nothing" people. Can you really blame them?
Bryant McGill
Acquire several skills and find at least one that you can master, and that earns you respect.
Bryant McGill
Life wants you to respect yourself, respect other people and respect the planet.
Bryant McGill
Respect all living things, and never take what you cannot give back, or destroy what you cannot create.
Bryant McGill
He said that he was sorry but Robert Bey had called and told him i was no longer in the party. I was burnt. I got the Bronx Ministry to put him on the phone and proceeded to call him the unprincipled, arrogant idiot he was... i hate arrogance whether it's white or purple or Black. Some people let power get to their heads... the only great people i have met have been modest and humble. You can't claim that you love people when you don't respect them, and you can't call for political unity unless you practice it in your relationships.
Assata Shakur
A man could love only what he respected, not pitied.
Ninotchka Rosca
It's not 'over-sensitivity' to ask to be treated with the same dignity and respect shown to others.
DaShanne Stokes
It is offensive that so many people feel that it is okay to publicly refer to transsexuals as being “pre-op” or “post-op” when it would so clearly be degrading and demeaning to regularly describe all boys and men as being either “circumcised” or “uncircumcised.
Julia Serano
I am rather disturbed by the fact that so many people—who are neither medical professionals nor trans themselves—would want to hear all of the gory details regarding transsexual physical transformations, or would feel that they have any right to ask us about the state of our genitals.
Julia Serano
Are you crazy? The last thing you want to do is make a scene." "Well, I'm gonna make a movie if you don't show me some respect.
Sister Souljah
Respectful communication under conflict or opposition is an essential and truly awe-inspiring ability.
Bryant McGill
It is a tragedy beyond the power of language to convey when what has been imposed on women by force becomes a standard of freedom for women: and all the women say it is so.
Andrea Dworkin
I’m very fond of the concept of choice as the basis for sexual preference. This point of view is unpopular in an era in which every claim for gay rights is bases on pseudoscientific sulking about how we can’t help being queer; we’re just born that way. Thanks, but I don’t want to receive my civil rights as a charity fuck bequeathed on me by my genetic superiors.
Patrick Califia-Rice
What the proponents of prostitution conveniently ignore is that lack of opportunity is lack of choice.
Rachel Moran
Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose.
Simone Weil
The Fanatics have dirtied its fiber, and their mottos have reated a thick layer of mold over its wounds, one of total intolerance, feeding on the indoctrination of the youth cliques.
Rami Ollaik
If young people are our greatest asset in a war that must be won then wemust be willing to extricate them at whatever cost from the clutchesof those who seek to exploit their weaknesses
Oche Otorkpa
One of the greatest challenge facing young people today, is thelarge scale availability of half truth’s and manipulated facts
Oche Otorkpa
We are looking to brands for poetry and for spirituality, because we're not getting those things from our communities or from each other. When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
Naomi Klein
Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.
Maya Angelou
The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.
Grace Paley
Few, if any, survive their teens.
Maya Angelou
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.
Maya Angelou
Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore
James Baldwin
No. Don't never go looking for love girl. Just wait. It'll come. Like the rain fallin' from the heaven, it'll come. Just don't never give up on love.
Sonia Sanchez