We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Tags: civil disobedience nonviolence tension Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal’s avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedient’s taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will. —Hannah Arendt More about this quote Tags: activism prejudice law civil disobedience crime Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl. —Nellie McClung More about this quote Tags: action apologies Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it. —Malcolm X More about this quote Tags: justice freedom responsibility equality ownship Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It takes six simpletons and one zealot to start a movement. —Anzia Yezierska More about this quote Tags: activism movements Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The question is not “Can you make a difference?” You already do make a difference. It’s just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make during your life on this planet. —Julia Butterfly Hill More about this quote Tags: life purpose difference choices Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I’m against picketing, but I don’t know how to show it. —Mitch Hedberg More about this quote Tags: humor activism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it. —Martin Sheen More about this quote Tags: activism civil disobedience government personal change Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Activism is my rent for living on this planet. —Alice Walker More about this quote Tags: activism responsibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Find your place on the planet, dig in, and take responsibility from there. —Gary Snyder More about this quote Tags: responsibility work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. —Thích Nhất Hạnh More about this quote Tags: life family connection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished. —Elia Kazan More about this quote Tags: strength soul survival spirit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We categorize everyone. We send the old here, the young there. We ship adolescents off to war. We send everyone to prison every day: the children to school, the parents to the office or the factory, the musicians to concert halls in the evening. —John Cage More about this quote Tags: war age prison Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don’t ever think the poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him when his hand trembles! If they ever were there, they are there still. —Oliver Wendell Holmes More about this quote Tags: poetry age joy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I was young, I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long. —W. Somerset Maugham More about this quote Tags: learning curiousity age youth Greek ambition Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email