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Quotes about Activism

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Martin Luther King Jr.
 
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"Sacred Activism is the fusion of the mystic's passion for God with the activist's passion for justice, creating a third fire, which is the burning sacred heart that longs to help, preserve, and nurture every living thing."

Andrew Harvey
 
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if you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends, you talk to your enemies.

Moshe Dayan
 
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Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

Dalai Lama
 
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There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.

A.J. Muste
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Don't agonize, organize.

Jim Hightower
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Don’t let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

Bill Gates : Microsoft Chairman
Bill Gates
Source: Gates Harvard Commencement Speech: http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/06.14/99-gates.html
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"Don't do nothing because you can't do everything.  Do something.  Anything."

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
 
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"I am leaving this legacy to all of you ... to bring peace, justice, equality, love and a fulfillment of what our lives should be. Without vision, the people will perish, and without courage and inspiration, dreams will die-- the dream of freedom and peace.

Rosa Parks
 
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Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Naomi Klein
 
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How dull is it to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use!
As tho' to breathe were life.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Source: Ulysses
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The will to act is a renewable resource.

Al Gore (1948 - )
 
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement, seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.

Abraham Joshua Heschel
 
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People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar : American master sales trainer, author, motivating speaker
Zig Ziglar (1926 - )
 
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To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against. (Christina Baldwin, American spiritual writer)

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If you're not giving the world the best you have, what world are you saving it for ? (Kent Keith, American author, born 1949)

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. (Lewis Cass, governor of Michigan, 1782-1866)

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Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance.

Thich Nhat Hanh : Gaia Child
Thich Nhat Hanh
 
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My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be.  If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be.  I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there.  It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

Alice Walker (1944 - )
Source: Shambhala The Sun Magazine (JAN 1999)
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A concern of some new meditators is that a peaceful heart doesn't allow for taking a stand, or acting decisively against injustice. This is particularly true for Jews, for whom the prophetic vision of social justice is a corner stone of religious practice. My father, for instance, thought that a peaceful heart preculded forceful action. he used to say, " I nned my anger. It obliges me to take action." I thin kmy father was partly right. Anger arises, naturally, to signal disturbing situations that might require action. But actions initiated in anger perpetuate suffering. The most effective actions are thoase conceived in the wisdom of clarity.

Sylvia Boorstein
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To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against.

Christina Baldwin
 
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