Quotes by Activists - Page 6

Fill the cup of happiness for others and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.
Rose Pastor Stokes
It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
Ethel Percy Andrus
There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.
Rose Pastor Stokes
What I spent is gone what I kept I lost but what I gave away will be mine forever.
Ethel Percy Andrus
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
Simone Weil
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
Simone Weil
Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.
Sarah Winnemucca
[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Helen Keller
An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen but great-ens his life.
Stephen S. Wise
Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.
Dolores Huerta
I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.
Grace Paley
A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete women should try to give their best qualities to men- bring them softness teach them how to cry.
Joan Baez
I never fight except against difficulties.
Helen Keller
The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.
Marian Wright Edelman
If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast it only gets an R rating but if God forbid a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
Sally Struthers
Service to others is the rent you pay for living on this planet.
Marian Wright Edelman
To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Jane Fonda
It is not who you attend school with but who controls the school you attend.
Nikki Giovanni
Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare social justice can never be attained.
Helen Keller
My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.
Faye Wattleton
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Discouraged not by difficulties without or the anguish of ages within the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed in the future lies the Promised Land."
Helen Keller
A hateful act is the transference to others of the degradation we bear in ourselves.
Simone Weil
Everything has its wonders even darkness and silence and I learn whatever state I may be in therein to be content.
Helen Keller
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow.
Helen Keller
We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.
Ethel Percy Andrus
True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
Happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
Seek not outside yourself heaven is within.
Mary Lou Cook
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
Marge Piercy
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
When you're as great as I am it's hard to be humble.
Muhammad Ali
The experience of God or in any case the possibility of experiencing God is innate.
Alice Walker
The million little things that drop into your hands The small opportunities each day brings He leaves us free to use or abuse And goes unchanging along His silent way.
Helen Keller
God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His work.
Helen Keller
Life has ... taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself but to leave the result to God.
Alan Paton
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
Wilma Pearl Mankiller
We're half the people we should be half the Congress.
Jeannette Rankin
The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.
Charlotte Bunch
Mine eyes have seen the coming of the glory of the Lord.
Julia Ward Howe
Action is the antidote to despair.
Joan Baez
I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act write speak be I'll be sending messages on a ouija board cryptic complaints from the other side.
Audre Lorde
All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.
Victoria Claffin Woodhull
The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
Florynce Kennedy
The most effective way to do it is to do it.
Toni Cade Bambara
To choose is also to begin.
Starhawk
The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.
Mary Heaton Vorse
No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.
Alice Walker
The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
Joan Baez
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Robin Morgan
We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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
Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.
Marian Wright Edelman
There are worse words than cuss words there are words that hurt.
Tillie Olsen
If you want to be listened to you should put in time listening.
Marge Piercy
The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.
Maya Angelou
Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of sisters?
Alice Walker