One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I began to feel that my greatest sense of success would raise the level of masses of people, rather than the individual… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. They'd tell you stuff like,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
The blind spot for the in the Southern Progressive Movement - as for that matter in the national [progressive] movement - was… — C. Vann Woodward Copy Share Image
But we need more than a broader understanding of what is a good society or a moral and political critique of the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
We talk about social service, service to the people, service to humanity, service to others who are far away, helping to bring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was certainly not by design that the particles fell into order, they did not work out what they were going to… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Political correctness is anti-empathetic because it has correctness in it. We all have biases, we all have prejudices and if we cant… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those… — Leon Foucault Copy Share Image
(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
I don't like answering to other people's philosophies. I don't have any philosophy, I just believe in stuff. Either I believe in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When you make something, if you are a painter or a writer, a degree, or a sculptor or whatever or a musician,… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I stopped acting when I was about nineteen, twenty, when I got thrown out of college. I did act for about ten… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Amid all the revolutions of the globe, the economy of Nature has been uniform, ... and her laws are the only things… — John Playfair Copy Share Image
We see not only thought as participating in evolution as an anomaly or as an epiphenomenon; but evolution as so reducible to… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own… — Elisabeth Eaves Copy Share Image
Richard Nixon was not the lesser evil, he was the greater evil, but in his administration the war was finally brought to… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to… — Ai-jen Poo Copy Share Image
the explanation of the ebb and flow of the women's movement ... is partly psychological. During those early post-war years when successes… — Eleanor Rathbone Copy Share Image
The good news is that there is strong movement in this direction of shifting from domination systems to partnership systems. Over the… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back… — David Boies Copy Share Image
His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
In the past, when we were initially organizing to bring about changes, our elders had little or no political experience. However, today,… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Opposing what's wrong is a halfway measure at best. A rebel must also have a vision for something better, a strategy for… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Some god or Weltgeist has been making a movie out of us for the past six thousand years, and now we have… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
For most progressives, what happens in families is a matter of "just" women's issues and children's issues. So progressive movements have focused… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I wasn't a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called 'creative… — Carrie Ann Inaba Copy Share Image
This generation is different. They are not as interested in chasing money or material possessions. I believe that this generation is more… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
Please don’t do this—don’t do this to me. If anything happened to you—” He looked at her with surprise. There was already… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image