Civil rights movement Quote by Anne Moody

“I heard the waves tumbling in a chorus of doves, inviting me to take part in their vision. A vision from Beyond.”

— Gina Marinello-Sweeney

“The ordeals of others . . . prepare us, and later become the compass . . . in our time of ordeal.”

— John-Talmage Mathis

“Here, too, the honorable finds its due and there are tears for passing things; here, too, things mortal touch the mind.”

— Virgil

“Lord, teach me to listen. The times are noisy and my ears are weary with the thousand raucous sounds which continuously assault them.”

— A.W. Tozer

“My witness is the wind, which has gone on and on, and will continue on and on. And it will carry forward my hopes…

— José N. Harris

“Listen, whatever you see and love— that’s where you are.”

— Mary Oliver

“Everything east of the Mississippi is west of the Mississippi, if you just keep going.”

— Jarod Kintz

“But this here, the valley of sweet Virginia, this is the blissful shore. There is no more to reach for. But, humming, he knows.…

— Robert Goolrick

“Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay.”

— Basava

“Let us cast off the haze Of the mists from our band, Till with far-seeing gaze We may look on the land.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Listening is necessary. It can open doors of victory.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“that was the only way of keeping our hopes alive, by looking beyond all we were seeing around us, and the shadow of disaster…

— Michael Morpurgo