#activism

"Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are."

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

"You do it for yourself. You don’t expect to change the world. You don’t even expect to influence your family or your friends. You do it because you can’t not do it and be who you are. Or who you’re meant to be."

"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 enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."

"There is absolutely no greater high than challenging the power structure as a nobody, giving it your all, and winning!"

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not."

"An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a divine dissatisfaction with our miserable social environment."

"Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived."

"One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."

"Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first."

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

"When asked if I am pessimistic or optimistic about the future, my answer is always the same: if you look at the science about what is happening on earth and aren't pessimistic, you don't understand the data. But if you meet the people who are working to restore this earth and the lives of the poor, and you aren't optimistic, you haven't got a pulse."

"Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence."

"Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room."

"‎God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest."

"The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action."

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."