Quotes by Activists - Page 44

Let me also say I wanna make you sandwhiches,And soup,And peanut butter cookies,Though, the truth is peanutbutter is actually really bad for you 'cause they grow peanuts in old cotton fields to clean the toxins out of the soil,But hey, you like peanutbutter and I like you!
Andrea Gibson
You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.
Ian Somerhalder
I have to find a place to hideAn island in the seaSurrounded by a racing tideWhere I can live with me
Laurie Matthew
Monster a person though monster not human.Monster like music. Like Beatles! Like Schumann!World full of stupid. World full of noise.Monster feel ANGRY. No birthday. No joys.World full of JUNK monster not comprehend.What is a childhood? What is a friend?Monster and human both want the same.Want conversation. Want love. WANT NO PAIN.If monster speak heart: monster life only worsen.Monster not human: BUT MONSTER A PERSON!
Jennifer Finney Boylan
You may shoot me with your words,You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your hatefulness,But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Maya Angelou
Lovers think quite different thoughtswhile lying side by side.
Maya Angelou
Out of the huts of history's shameI riseUp from a past that's rooted in painI riseI'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.Leaving behind nights of terror and fearI riseInto a daybreak that's wondrously clearI riseBringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,I am the dream and the hope of the slave.I riseI riseI rise.
Maya Angelou
Nothing will change until we change - until we throw off our dependence and act for ourselves.
Myles Horton
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used, than a powerful one that is idle.
Bryant McGill
We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.
Rivera Sun
We must let our every act be out of love, and for the greater good of all.
Bryant McGill
There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there.
Rivera Sun
But fear of making mistakes can itself become a huge mistake, one that prevents you from living, for life is risky and anything less is already a loss.
Rebecca Solnit
You will find your purpose revealed in every single action, once you realize that — you — are your purpose.
Bryant McGill
Love is a lens of an observer. Love is an attitude with action.
Bryant McGill
Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.
Tim Wise
It is terribly important to realize that the leap of faith is not so much a leap of thought as of action. For while in many matters it is first we must see then we will act; in matters of faith it is first we must do then we will know, first we will be and then we will see. One must, in short, dare to act wholeheartedly without absolute certainty.
William Sloane Coffin Jr.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi
It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
Mahatma Gandhi
Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi
And for those of us from communities with historic collective trauma, we must understand that each of us is already science fiction walking around on two legs. Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us.
Walidah Imarisha
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Rutger Hauer
The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements.
Bryant McGill
The freest societies are in a constant state of revolution.
Bryant McGill
We must understand that out of community and dialogue, the answers will arrive in their own time and way.
Bryant McGill
We must take the money out of politics, and end psychopathic, self-destructive government and corporate madness.
Bryant McGill
We must rebuild organic communities, where people can come together and have analogue conversations and share stories, art, music and emotions.
Bryant McGill
If God wants something from me, he would tell me. He wouldn't leave someone else to do this, as if an infinite being were short on time. And he would certainly not leave fallible, sinful humans to deliver an endless plethora of confused and contradictory messages. God would deliver the message himself, directly, to each and every one of us, and with such clarity as the most brilliant being in the universe could accomplish. We would all hear him out and shout "Eureka!" So obvious and well-demonstrated would his message be. It would be spoken to each of us in exactly those terms we would understand. And we would all agree on what that message was.
Richard C. Carrier
An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.
Bryant McGill
There is truth and knowledge beyond present understanding.
Bryant McGill
A person at peace can immediately recognize a consciousness in crisis, whereas those in crisis cannot fully understand themselves or others.
Bryant McGill
There is truth and knowledge beyond understanding.
Bryant McGill
To understand the journey you have to do the walking.
Bryant McGill
Laugh and make the best of every situation. Understand that life is not perfect.
Bryant McGill
Understand and challenge your personal narrative. Narratives become choices and actions — which become your life.
Bryant McGill
Three-fourths of the miseries and misunderstandings in the world will disappear if we step into the shoes of our adversaries and understand their standpoint.
Mahatma Gandhi
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.
Alice Walker
The introduction to horrors so young impressed on me just how helpless and vulnerable I was. Parents are supposed to empower their children to live without them but in my family, I wasn’t given permission to be my own person. I thought I needed them to live and then they abandoned me. It’s no wonder I felt so unempowered well into my adult years.
Christina Enevoldsen
The most powerful tools of revolution through intention are humility and consciousness.
Bryant McGill
We can only save ourselves through elevating our individual consciousness, by realizing there is already completeness within, and exercising as much considerate independence, respect and fairness as is possible.
Bryant McGill
The war consciousness is purposely cultivated to guide the male away from the natural, healthy balances between masculine and feminine energies, and toward more unbalanced and detached psychologies.
Bryant McGill
Humility and full consciousness are inseparable.
Bryant McGill
You are what you consume, and as an organism and consciousness, you in fact become a commodity and predator yourself.
Bryant McGill
The existence of excessive nationalism is a symptom of a deeper problem in the collective consciousness, which is continually being exploited.
Bryant McGill
People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.
Bryant McGill
Ascension through all levels of consciousness and awareness can only happen when you live life as you, and not how others think you should live. How could self-realization possibly be anything other than being yourself?
Bryant McGill
Observing the stream of eternal and simple truth is the same for all who look upon the fountainhead of consciousness.
Bryant McGill
The emergence of one world consciousness must be accompanied with one world political infrastructures.
Bryant McGill
As your consciousness, refinement and pureness of heart expands you will become less judgmental, less corrective, less reactive, less black-and-white, less critical, less apt to blame and less tormented by others and their faults and views.
Bryant McGill
We are all students of the world; frail embodied consciousnesses struggling to understand, and be a meaningful part of this great, mysterious gift of life.
Bryant McGill
The pinnacle of human consciousness must be the rejection of unhealthy competition, war and violence.
Bryant McGill
And he was. Suddenly. From not being to being conscious that he was.
Gioconda Belli
But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
Audre Lorde
Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.
Elie Wiesel
Evil's when you push your agenda over someone else's. When you assert your beliefs over somebody's contrary beliefs. That's evil.
David Kitson
& love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.
Amiri Baraka
Sometimes I am asked if I know the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude HAS a response. What I do know is that there is response in responsibility. When we speak of this era of evil and darkness, so close and yet so distant, responsibility is the key word,The witness has forced himself to testify. For the youth of today, for the children who will be born tomorrow. He does not want his past to become their future.
Elie Wiesel
There is something in our soul that loathes true attention much more violently than flesh loathes fatigue. That something is much closer to evil than flesh is. That is why, every time we truly give our attention, we destroy some evil in ourselves. If one pays attention with this intention, fifteen minutes of attention is worth a lot of good works.
Simone Weil
Yes, we need to pray for Orlando/Britain/this election/the World, but we also need to act upon it and band together to oppose Evil.
Rowan Blanchard
Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of Justice are so poorly organized. On the other hand, the Evil is cynic, sly and fantastically organized. It never ever has the illusion of the ability to stand on its own feet and to win in a fair competition. That is why it is ready to use any kind of means without hesitation. And of course it does - under the banners of the most noble ideas.
Vladimir Bukovsky