Quotes by Activists - Page 7

My friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.
Helen Keller
Friendship marks a life even more deeply rhan love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel
Life is the first gift love is the second and understanding the third.
Marge Piercy
If we go down into ourselves we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Simone Weil
If you haven't forgiven yourself something how can you forgive others?
Dolores Huerta
Fire destroys that which feeds it.
Simone Weil
Grace fills empty spaces but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it and it is grace itself which makes this void.
Simone Weil
People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.
Helen Prejean
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas Gandhi
Hatred is a death wish for the hated not a life wish for anything else.
Audre Lorde
To a man with an empty stomach food is god.
Mahatma Gandhi
Let us not fear the hidden. Or each other.
Muriel Rukeyser
When men are ruled by fear they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
Alan Paton
The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who by the mysterious influence of grace of sweetness and of love renders the fulfillment of duties less wearisome sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness.
Giuseppe Mazzini
I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.
Helen Keller
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent conquer him with love.
Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings.
Helen Keller
Faith is the function of the heart.
Mahatma Gandhi
It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers but for powers equal to our tasks to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel towards our distant goal.
Helen Keller
Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into.
Mahatma Gandhi
How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.
Sonia Johnson
Spirituality leaps where science cannot yet follow because science must always test and measure and much of reality and human experience is immeasurable.
Starhawk
Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time and bear fruit throughout eternity.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
Marian Wright Edelman
The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Keller
Inside of a ring or out ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
Muhammad Ali
If you risk nothing then you risk everything.
Geena Davis
What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.
Sonia Johnson
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 made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.
Jerry Rubin
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Elie Wiesel
Experience which destroys innocence also leads one back to it.
James Baldwin
If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide.
Mahatma Gandhi
I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
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
To sing is to love and affirm to fly and soar to coast into the hearts of the people who listen to tell them that life is to live that love is there that nothing is a promise but that beauty exists and must be hunted for and found.
Joan Baez
Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black.
James Baldwin
I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.
William Sloane Coffin
Doubts and mistrust are the mere panic of timid imagination which the steadfast heart will conquer and the large mind transcend.
Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller
Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.
Starhawk
You will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.
Helen Keller
The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
Marge Piercy
You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
Joan Baez
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me As He died to make men holy let us die to make men free While God is marching on.
Julia Ward Howe
However confused the scene of our life appears however torn we may be who now do face that scene it can be faced and we can go on to be whole.
Muriel Rukeyser
There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.
Helen Keller
I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first a little and badly. Then bit by bit more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.
Audre Lorde
Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.
Alice Walker
Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.
Bernadette Devlin
I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.
Gloria Steinem
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country to meet many a joy to find many a comrade to win and lose many a battle.
Annie Besant
That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.
Ruby Dee
Courage is the most important of all virtues because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
Maya Angelou
Those who serve a cause are not those who love that cause. They are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it - except in the case of the very purest and they are rare.
Simone Weil
Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
Gloria Steinem
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day ah now that's a real treat.
Joanne Woodward
Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.
John Beecher
What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings Idler or bungler or both he is willing To fork out his copper and pocket your shilling.
Ebenezer Elliott