Quotes by Activists - Page 66

Change will never happen if you lack the ability and courage to see yourself for who you really are.
Bryant McGill
Let your passion and courage swell in you until you can no longer be contained by fear.
Bryant McGill
Courage is not the absence of fear. Only fools have no fear. Rather, courage is the intellectual mastery of fear by understanding the true risks and opportunities of the situation and keeping those things in balance
Julian Assange
Everybody’s scared, but if you don’t let your fears stop you, that’s bravery.
Leslie Feinberg
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
Nelson Mandela
We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily — as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable.
Maya Angelou
There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou
You'll need courage because polyamorous relationships can be scary. Loving other people without a script is scary. Allowing the people you love to make their own choices without controlling them is scary. The kind of courage we're talking about involves being willing to let go of guarantees - and love and trust your partners anyway.
Franklin Veaux
To respect the opinions of those who stand against you is nothing short of courageous.
Raif Badawi
Don’t let anyone tell you what you can and can’t do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Just encourage and include each other, don’t ostracize the gender in front of you.
Emma Watson
We need to develop courage, and we need to develop it in small ways first..... You develop a little courage, so that if you decide, "I will not stay in rooms where women are belittled; I will not stay in company where races, no matter who they are, are belittled; I will not take it; I will not sit around and accept dehumanising other human beings: - if you decide to do that in small ways, and you continue to do it - finally you realize you've got so much courage. Imagine it - you've got so much courage that people want to be around you. They get a feeling that they will be protected in your company.
Maya Angelou
Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.
Julian Assange
It will be very hard. You’ll make a million mistakes, and you’ll pay for them all, one way or another. But the hard parts will be your parts, they won’t be hard parts other people have imposed on you for their own reasons, or maybe for no reason at all. And your ownership of them – your responsibility to and for them – makes all the difference in the world.
Derrick Jensen
We can sit in our corners mute forever while our sisters and our selves are distorted and destroyed, while our earth is poisoned; we can sit in our safe corners mute as bottles, and we will still be no less afraid.
Audre Lorde
There is a heady sense of manhood that comes from advancing from apathy to commitment, from timidity to courage, from passivity to aggressiveness. There is an intoxication that comes from standing up to the police at last.
David T. Dellinger
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Maya Angelou
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore
I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.
Sophie Scholl
To gain that which is worth having,it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Bernadette Devlin McAliskey
Somebody, after all, had to make a start. What we wrote and said is also believed by many others. They just don't dare express themselves as we did.
Sophie Scholl
An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.
Sophie Scholl
All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.
Muhammad Ali
My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.
Maya Angelou
I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid — if you are afraid, you can't move forward.
Malala Yousafzai
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
Maya Angelou
God says when. I execute.
Khalid Muhammad
A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.
Nelson Mandela
A hint of - dare I say? - animism has entered into the scientific worldview. The physical world is no longer either dead or passively obedient to the "laws.
Barbara Ehrenreich
The world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare.
James Baldwin
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.
Helen Keller
No, I mean I'm sorry that you've inherited such a miserable, collapsing Old Country. A place where rich Bankers own everything, where you've got to be grateful for a part-time job with no benefits and no retirement plan, where the most health insurance you can afford is being careful and hoping you don't get sick, where --
Cory Doctorow
I got a number of very thoughtful responses to the email I sent out last night, most of which I don’t have time to respond to right now. Thanks everyone for the encouragement, questions, criticism. Daniel’s response was particularly inspiring to me and deserves to be shared. The resistance of Israeli Jewish people to the occupation and the enormous risk taken by those refusing to serve in the Israeli military offers an example, especially for those of us living in the United States, of how to behave when you discover that atrocities are being commited in your name. Thank you.
Rachel Corrie
Unleash your mighty words, and with them, recreate a new and more beautiful world for all.
Bryant McGill
You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you lose your balance.
Bryant McGill
People can only have power over you if you are seeking to have power over others.
Bryant McGill
Writing has the power of permanence.
Bryant McGill
Your power and brilliance is the the most awesome force life could muster.
Bryant McGill
You would not believe what skill, power and ability your total intelligence possesses until you are in desperate need.
Bryant McGill
When you blame others, you are affirming that you have no power, and your existence is only a reaction to the power of others.
Bryant McGill
Being powerful means shifting our minds away from our troubles and into solution-thinking.
Bryant McGill
You are powerful, if you choose to be.
Bryant McGill
Understand your power. Live dangerously. Live fearlessly. Cower before no earthly master. Know yourself. Live truthfully. Live freely. Be yourself. Love yourself.
Bryant McGill
What is a human but a choice maker? Choices are powerful. Choices change history. Choices change the world. Remember your power!
Bryant McGill
It is astounding what power being kind, mannered, polite and considerate has in transforming your life.
Bryant McGill
Spirituality is like a thin-thin thread, that if delicately followed guides us from darkness to light; from poverty to abundance and from destruction to safety.
Bryant McGill
Being love-filled and beautiful is one of the most powerful defenses that one can employ.
Bryant McGill
Quit lying to yourself and accept your power and beauty. Liberate yourself from the slow-death you call life.
Bryant McGill
Let the power of yes take root in your heart and transform you life.
Bryant McGill
The most powerful manifesting is realized by those who walk in love and create through love.
Bryant McGill
The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals.
Bryant McGill
A moment of truth is very powerful. Instead of smiling to be polite, just frown. Instead of laughing when you are nervous or uncomfortable, just speak your truth. Instead of acting like everything is all right, proclaim it isn't alright, and talk about your feelings! Honor your truth. Honor yourself. Be real.
Bryant McGill
Taking care of yourself is the most powerful way to begin to take care of others.
Bryant McGill
It takes a lot of time, focus and energy to realize the enormity of being the ocean with your very own tide every month. However, by honoring the demands of bleeding, our blood gives something in return. The crazed bitch from irritation hell recedes. In her place arises a side of ourselves with whom we may not—at first—be comfortable. She is a vulnerable, highly perceptive genius who can ponder a given issue and take her world by storm. When we’re quiet and bleeding, we stumble upon the solutions to dilemmas that’ve been bugging us all month. Inspiration hits and moments of epiphany rumba ‘across de tundra of our senses. In this mode of existence one does not feel antipathy towards a bodily ritual so profoundly and routinely reinforces our cuntpower.
Inga Muscio
The incredibly powerful and enriching lifestyle of seeking beauty is a humble service of love and healing.
Bryant McGill
Worry is the opposite of power.
Bryant McGill
Resistance is a simple concept: power, unjust and immoral, is confronted and dismantled. The powerful are denied their right to hurt the less powerful. Domination is replaced by equity in a shift or substitution of institutions. That shift eventually forms new human relationships, both personally and across society.
Lierre Keith
It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.
Masha Gessen
The more powerful the powerful appear the more invisible they become, said Armando. This used to work differently than now. In the old days it was said that the powerful merged with the divine and the divine was all that one saw. But now the powerful have merged with the shadow, really with death, and when you encounter them they are really hard to see.
Alice Walker
The only reason pain exists is because we let it feed on us and that gives it the power to continue existing (I.R.V)
Reshma Valliappan
American schools in Guam, both before 1941 and after 1945, were established to eradicate the Chamoru, tongue and person. To educate the old Chamoru out of the new American. The native out of the patriot...But the nastier lesson their schools taught was that their dreams were ours. That indigenous knowledge had no place in the new world...As vehicles for our assimilation, American schools have attached to our longings alien aspirations for material wealth, money and power. How much of our creativity and our vision has already been laid to waste for the sake of these?
Julian Aguon