Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl.
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it
People would rather believe than know.
The speaker calls for a careful examination of Christ's principle of turning the other cheek before we use it as a demand or excuse for total personal pacifism. After all, when literally struck on the...
Individual heterosexual women came to the movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for socia...
They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.
Much of the oxygen we breathe comes from plants that died long ago. We can give thanks to these ancestors of our present-pay foliage, but we can't give back to them. We can, however, give forward. Whe...
Every day I get better at knowing that it is not a choice to be an activist; rather, it is the only way to hold on to the better parts of my human self. It is the only way I can live and laugh without...
As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.
Lincoln on Grant: "He makes things get. Wherever he is, he makes things move.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mo...
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.
To spend one's life being angry, and in the process doing nothing to change it, is to me ridiculous. I could be mad all day long, but if I'm not doing a damn thing, what difference does it make?
This is the world as it is. This is where you start.
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to e...
You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.
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