As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this. (Paul Robeson)
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” (Anne Frank)
“Only the people can save the people.” (Calixto Torres Santay)
“‘To the extent that it is possible,’ Ola said one day..’you must live in the world today as you wish everyone to live in the world to come. That can be your contribution. Otherwise, the world you want will never be formed. Why? Because you will be waiting for others to do what you are not doing; and they are waiting for you, and so on. The planet goes from bad to worse.'” (Alice Walker, “The Temple of My Familiar”)
“Don’t mourn. Organize.” (Joe Hill)
“No man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.” (Edward Murrow)
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.” (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
“It is six A.M., and I am working. I am absentminded, reckless, heedless of social obligations, etc. It is as it must be. The tire goes flat, the tooth falls out, there will be a hundred meals without mustard. The poem gets written. I have wrestled with the angel and I am stained with light and I have no shame. Neither do I have guilt. My responsibility is not to the ordinary, or the timely. It does not include mustard, or teeth. It does not extend to the lost button, or the beans in the pot. My loyalty is to the inner vision, whenever and howsoever it may arrive. If I have a meeting with you at three o’clock, rejoice if I am late. Rejoice even more if I do not arrive at all.” (Mary Oliver, “Upstream”)