Quotes by Activists - Page 4

We cannot protect ourselves from disappointment and still live a fully engaged life.
Sharon Weil
If you think your religion requires discrimination, you're probably misreading your faith.
DaShanne Stokes
Most reject the more repugnant or indefensible dogmas while still holding onto some core belief. Many believers will proudly describe themselves as "reasonable" or "rational" based on how little of their religion they still embrace versus how much they now reject. I think it's funny when people realize that the less you believe the more reasonable you are, but they stop before they reach the logical conclusion.
Aron Ra
My faceless neighbor spoke up:“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.”I exploded:“What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet?His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily:“I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.
Elie Wiesel
Hope requires waiting. Waiting requires patience.
Sharon Weil
If I’m going to have hope, I’m going to have to learn to endure disappointment.
Sharon Weil
The rain begins with a single drop
Manal Al-Sharif
In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this peculiarity, that while scores and scores of his male figures are obviously suffused and inspired by a romantic sentiment, there is hardly one of his female figures that is so,—the latter being mostly representative of woman in her part as mother, or sufferer, or prophetess or poetess, or in old age, or in any aspect of strength or tenderness, except that which associates itself especially with romantic love. Yet the cleanliness and dignity of Michel Angelo's male figures are incontestable, and bear striking witness to that nobility of the sentiment in him, which we have already seen illustrated in his sonnets.
Edward Carpenter
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
If your actions don't live up to your words, you have nothing to say.
DaShanne Stokes
In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God matters only in your private life.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Gandhi
They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover.
David Rovics
Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.
Maya Angelou
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi