#activism

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

"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."

"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."

"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 everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."

"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."

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

"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."-"