Activism Quote by Rebecca Solnit Download Open image ““What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable.”” — Rebecca Solnit ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Activism History Hope Politics Time
“What sort of future is coming up from behind I don't really know. But the past, spread out ahead, dominates everything in sight.” — Robert Prisig Copy Share Image
“At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The past has a way of rising up and stepping into view when we least expect it.” — Colleen Coble Copy Share Image
“Focusing on the past is only a barricade to the future. Once you overcome that barricade, the possibilities are endless.” — Brandon Cella Copy Share Image
“Our past might have been rocky, but I think our future’s inevitable.” — Lynetta Halat Copy Share Image
“...some things are better left in the past. And true things are destined to repeat themselves.” — Suzanne Young Copy Share Image
“One thing that's certain about the future: it will have more history than the present.” — Paul J. McAuley Copy Share Image
“But some things, no matter how unlikely, are just supposed to happen. You know what I mean. Some things just smack of the future… — Marisa de los Santos Copy Share Image
“the fear of what might happen in the future is almost always worse than the future that eventually arrives.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Georgia O’Keeffe moved to rural New Mexico, from which she would sign her letters to the people she loved, “from the faraway nearby.” It… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put ourself in their story, or figure out how… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“People have always been good at imagining the end of the world, which is much easier to picture than the strange sidelong paths of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Whose maps are we trying to read? And what are we trying to draw? It's so common to live in a place without truly… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of 9/11, people had not a good time, but a deep, profound, rousing time, woke up from their ennui and isolation… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been consideered private, non-public and non-political issues as matters of… — Seyla Benhabib Copy Share Image
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“It takes a female to have a baby, It takes a woman to raise a child, It takes a mother to raise them correctly,… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Paul Revere earned his living as a silversmith. But what do we remember him for? His volunteer work. All activism is volunteering in that… — Susan J. Ellis Copy Share Image
He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his… — Jimmy Buffett Copy Share Image
Poetry is a lousy form of activism; it doesn't really change much. And maybe we can point to one or two historical times when… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
“Until you find a cause you can die for, you are not worthy to live.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
Ya'll know what you need to do? Get together, make a We Are The World record. — Curtis Jackson Copy Share Image
“There is no way to tell if we are the pioneers of a visionary new age, whisking humanity into the high vibrations of an… — Jonathan Talat Phillips Copy Share Image
Terence McKenna says, "The culture is not your friend." I am not sure we can change this culture. But I think we can rise… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
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