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COURAGE, VISION, INTEGRITY, RESOLVE & ACTIVISM
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world... indeed, it is the only thing that ever has!
Margaret
Meade
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Lao Tsu
"Tao Te Ching"
People are unreasonable,
illogical and self-centered; love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives; do
good anyway.
If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies; succeed
anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow; do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable; be honest and frank anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs; fight for some underdogs
anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you help them; help anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth; give
the world the best you got anyway.
Mother Theresa
Only those who dare, truly live.
Ruth P. Freedman
No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There's
too much work to do.
Dorothy Day
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely
more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil
Gibran
mystic, poet and artist
(1883-1931)
The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.
Aung
San Suu Kyi
In true courage, there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and deed. There is always a flame of spirit in it, a vision of some necessity higher than oneself.
Brenda
Ueland
A time comes when silence is betrayal.
Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.
Samuel
Adams
Few are willing to brave
the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues,
the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery
in battle
or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those
who seek to change
a world that yields most painfully to change.
Robert
F. Kennedy
You
never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
R. Buckminster Fuller
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something
that I can do.
What I can do, I should do. And what I should do, by the grace of God, I will
do."
Edward
Everett Hale
...there
is a contemporary form of violence to which the idealist fighting for peace
by nonviolent methods most easily succumbs: activism and overwork. The rush
and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its
innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting
concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many
projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence.
More than that, it is cooperation in violence. The frenzy of the activist
neutralizes his or her work for peace. It destroys one's own inner capacity
for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of one's own work, because it kills
the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful.
Thomas
Merton
contemporary author and theologist
The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?"
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God! Your playing small doesn’t serve the world! There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you! We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; It’s in everyone!! And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Nelson
Mandela
Inaugural Speech
1994
Our
position is that people should be able to go to a peaceful rally or express
a dissenting view about American foreign policy without worrying that their
name will wind up in police files.
Mark
Silverstein
legal director of the Colorado chapter
of the ACLU
If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
Mahatma
Gandhi
(1869-1948)
The significant problems of the world cannot be solved at the same level of consciousness at which they were created.
Albert
Einstein
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without it we can't practice any other virtue with consistency.
Maya
Angelou
author
Integrity is one of several paths - it distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path. . . and the only one upon which you will never get lost.
M.
H. McKee
The ultimate measure of a person is not where s/he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where s/he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
William
J. H. Boetcker
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William
Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is: that one often comes
from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry
Ward Beecher
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your mind off your goals.
unknown
Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together.
Vist
M. Kelly
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George
Bernard Shaw
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own
government.
In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins - not through strength but by perseverance.
H.
Jackson Brown
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Lucius
Annaeus Seneca
writer and philosopher
(BCE 3-65 CE)
The whole problem with the
world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but
wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand
Russell
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems
you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just
the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet
Beecher Stowe
writer
(1811-1896)
Mourn not the dead. But rather mourn the apathetic throng - the cowed and meek who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
Ralph
Chaplin
Do not go where the path may lead, go where there is no path and leave a trail.
The
person who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Unknown
The most important political office is that of private citizen.
Louis
Brandeis
lawyer, judge, and writer
(1856-1941)
But
you who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming
it kindness.
Kahlil
Gibran
The Prophet
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back.
Piet
Hein
poet and scientist
(1905-1996)
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 fruit. But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
Mohandas
Gandhi
We
make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of
our answers.
Carl
Sagan
...One of the most calming
and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand
up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light
of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires ... causes
proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times
like these -- to be fierce and to show mercy toward others -- both are acts
of immense bravery and greatest necessity. Struggling souls catch light from
other souls who are fully lit and willing to show it. If you would help to
calm the tumult, this is one of the strongest things you can do.
Clarissa
Pinkola Estes, Ph.D.
2003
The
most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs
about the nature of life, people, and reality to something more positive...
and begin to act accordingly.
Shakti
Gawain
My aim is to agitate and disturb people. I'm not selling bread, I'm selling yeast.
Miguel
de Unamuno
writer and philosopher
(1864-1936)
Patience is also a form of action.
Auguste
Rodin
sculptor
(1840-1917)
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
French
proverb
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
Vince
Poscente
Olympian
(1961- )
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