Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
—Malcolm X
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
—Robert F. Kennedy
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
—Seneca
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
—Stephen Vincent Benet
A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
—Virginia Woolf
There is no limit to the power of loving.
—John Morton
Money . . . buys privacy, silence. The less money you have, the noisier it is; the thinner your walls, the closer your neighbors. . . . The first thing you notice when you step into the house or apartment of a rich person is how quiet it is.
—Fran Lebowitz
Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
—Emma Goldman
A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
—J. M. Barrie
You are a puppet, but in the hands of the infinite, which may be your own.
—Antonio Porchia
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
Truth has a power of its own. . . . A poem can inspire a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution. Civil disobedience can arouse people and provoke us to think.
—Howard Zinn
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
—Abraham Joshua Heschel
Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something. Anything.
—Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
In this country "American" means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.
—Toni Morrison