Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ocean without the roar of its...

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...

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

Activism is a Way of Life

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it’s fixed.

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.

Julia supposed that there was also a difference in perspective: ‘The practical level was another level down [in 1960s social movements] and not so interesting. I don’t know much about organizing, but I feel as...

What we see in the world around us is just a reflection of what is inside of us.

If you look at the science that describes what is happening on earth today and aren’t pessimistic, you don’t have the correct data. If you meet people in this unnamed movement and aren’t optimistic, you...

Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.

If I were to remain silent, I’d be guilty of complicity.

The tide of history only advances when people make themselves fully visible.

People would rather believe than know.

He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his dissatisfaction with his life and what he might do about it.

Obviously these are some exceptional young people, but what they have in common is that they were ordinary people who cared. They wanted to act, to do something, to make life better for other people—and...

It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any...

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

Last Night was pretty low-key as far as activism. But I want to know what motivated police concern to infiltrate, and there are other people in town … who want concrete assurances they haven’t been...

Understanding the shadow masculine or shadow feminine in oneself iscrucial not only for enhancing one ’s own wholeness but for championingjustice between genders and all diverse groups in the community. If theshadow is not recognized...

To spend one’s life being angry, and in the process doing nothing to change it, is to me ridiculous. I could be mad all day long, but if I’m not doing a damn thing, what...

Atheism is not synonymous with anti-theism and not all atheists are ‘active.’ There are many non-believers who aren’t activists, who don’t oppose religion at all, or who are simply not all are interested in discussing...

I think the church is often a culprit in the busyness, especially in the evangelical church. Again, it’s part of being Americans. Part of being evangelicals too is that we’re highly activist. We are always...

We need to stop fighting the old systems and start creating new containers for people who are going through these spiritual openings,’ Tavis reflected. ‘Together, we need to build something that’s never existed before—a global...

If, having endured much, we have at last asserted out “right to know,” and if by knowing, we have concluded that we are being asked to take senseless and frightening risks, then we should no...

Those who are most sensitive about “politically incorrect” terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to...

Mental illness is not a fraternity or a social club for like minds. It is its own religion to each person that has it. Their mind is their pastor, their feelings are their scriptures and...

I don’t get it. I just don’t get it. If Art is supposed to imitate Life, why do they want all the actors to be thin? There are fat people in the world. Shouldn’t there...

What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?

You have to do to be.

Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.

Much of the oxygen we breathe comes from plants that died long ago. We can give thanks to these ancestors of our present-pay foliage, but we can’t give back to them. We can, however, give...

We create the world we live in. If we want to change what we don’t like in the world, we must start by changing what we don’t like about ourselves.

Wrong is an addictive, repetitive story; Right is where the movement is.

There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind.

When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare...

The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of...

We’d do well to remember that at the end of the day, the law doesn’t defend us; we defend the law. And when it becomes contrary to our morals, we have both the right and...

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...

London is one of the world’s centres of Arab journalism and political activism. The failure of left and right, the establishment and its opposition, to mount principled arguments against clerical reaction has had global ramifications....

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.

It is important for women to do something about what they see.

Awareness without action is worthless.

If collapse is anything, it is a planetary immersion in the maelstrom ofparadox. Unless we understand and honor paradox, we will end up, like all ofthe mainstream media on earth, asking all of the wrong...

I do see a great deal of popular and Congressional dissatisfaction with the judicial activism; and, at a minimum, the Senate’s determination to confirm new justices who will respect Congress’ constitutional role,

War…is ugly and brutalizing, and the nobility is in doing it without becoming ugly and brutalizing.

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...

Our ailing planet needs spiritual warriors, ones capable of standing up to the Western materialism machine, so we can create sustainable societies that care for their citizens, harmonize with the cycles of nature, and receive...