#activism

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

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."

"As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course."

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

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

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

"People would rather believe than know."

"He who dares not offend cannot be honest."

"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes."~ ' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes."-"

"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."

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."