#activism

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

"‎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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."-"

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"People would rather believe than know."

"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."

"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."

"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."