Quotes by Activists - Page 5

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
I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.
Audre Lorde
Money it turned out was exactly like sex you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
James Baldwin
Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller
I look forward to being older when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the i point.
Susan Sarandon
I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction-I've worked hard for them!
Maggie Kuhn
Not all speed is movement.
Toni Cade
The dream is real my friends. The failure to realize it is the only reality.
Toni Cade Bambara
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
When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Helen Keller
Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.
Starhawk
Don't agonize. Organize.
Florynce Kennedy
All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.
Julia Ward Howe
As long as one keeps searching the answers come.
Joan Baez
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
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
Nature tops the list of potent tranquilizers and stress reducers. The mere sound of moving water has been shown to lower blood pressure.
Patch Adams
As long as the Earth can make a spring every year I can. As long as the Earth can flower and produce nurturing fruit I can because I'm the Earth. I won't give up until the Earth gives up.
Alice Walker
Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupations is exhilarating and life-giving.
Mahatma Gandhi
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
Marge Piercy
I believe in using words not fists.
Susan Sarandon
This world is white no longer and it will never be white again.
James Baldwin
Money it turned out was exactly like sex you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
James Baldwin
Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament.
Florynce Kennedy
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest it seems is an interest in life good bad or peculiar.
Grace Paley
No labourer in the world is expected to work for room board and love -except the housewife.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment of history or nothing happens.
Coretta Scott King
I wanted to marry her when I saw the moonlight shining on the barrel of her father's shotgun.
Eddie Albert
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller
Literature is my utopia.
Helen Keller
The universe is made up of stories not of atoms.
Muriel Rukeyser
Although a lot can be learned from adversity most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.
Peter McWilliams
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
Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulties.
Helen Keller
The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.
Laurence Ferlinghetti
Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Mahatma Gandhi
The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn but to unlearn.
Gloria Steinem
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship tense and anxious groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began only I was without compass or sounding line and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul and rhe light of love shone on me in that very hour.
Helen Keller
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Simone Weil
I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
Nikki Giovanni
So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship we will never feel the free wind blow.
Sonia Johnson
We couldn't possibly know where it would lead but we knew it had to be done.
Betty Friedan
You can do one of two things just shut up which is something I don't find easy or learn an awful lot very fast which is what I tried to do.
Jane Fonda
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 easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10 000 people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.
Maggie Kuhn
I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing you will never get it.
Charleszetta Waddles
Hope is a very unruly emotion.
Gloria Steinem
The gift we can offer others is so simple a thing as hope.
Daniel Berrigan
Hope arouses as nothing else can arouse a passion for the possible.
William Sloane Coffin
The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone but that life is not worth living without it.
Harvey Milk
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Helen Keller
Most people in action are not worth very much and yet every human being is an unprecedented miracle.
James Baldwin
Believe when you are most unhappy that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain life is not in vain.
Helen Keller
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Marian Wright Edelman