#activism

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."

"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."

"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."-"

"Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"People would rather believe than know."

"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."