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Quotes for Ray. "The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it". ..........Moliere "Do what you can with what you have where you are". ..........Theodore Roosevelt Begin somewhere. "You cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do". ..........Liz Smith "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity". ..........Martin Luther King, Jr. "If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen". ..........Cher "Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself". ..........Oprah Winfrey "Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try". ..........Mary Kay Ash "Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life". ..........Wilma Rudolph "It's never too late to have a happy childhood". ..........Tom Robbins "What wound did ever heal but by degrees"? ..........William Shakespeare "Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear but around in awareness". ............James Thurber "Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul." ..........Edward Abbey "Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life." ..........Norman Cousins "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it". ..........Abbie Hoffman "If you can't lower heaven, raise hell." ..........Mother Jones When spiders unite, they can tie down a lion. ..........Ethiopian Proverb "Cowardice asks the question, Is it safe? Expediency asks the question, Is it politic? Vanity asks the question, Is it popular? But conscience asks the question, Is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him that it is right." ..........Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Nothing wrong with a few professional protesters, when the world is full of professional oppressors. ..........Alan Bamford Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself". ..........Mark Twain "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds". ..........Albert Einstein "A man who walks down the centre line of a road risks getting hit from both sides". ..........Alexander Zlatanovic "Radical simply means grasping things at the root". ..........Angela Davis "All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident". ..........Arthur Schopenhauer "They will do whatever we let them get away with". ..........Joseph Heller "As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery". ..........Ben Harper "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win". ..........Mahatma Gandhi "Who struggles can fail. Who doesn't struggle has already failed"! ..........Bertolt Brecht "I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it than vote for something I don't want, and get it". ..........Eugene V. Debs "Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal". ..........Martin Luther King "Don't agonize. Organize". ..........Florence Kennedy "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting". ..........Milan Kundera "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act". ..........George Orwell "It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies". ..........Noam Chomsky "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." ..........Margaret Fuller "Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade." ..........Constance Baker Motley "I think it's very important for everyone in America to realize right now the state of our country, not just on this issue but on a lot of issues, that it is time to get active again. People have just sat back and just sort of said, oh, let somebody else do it for a long time, and we're seeing what's happening to the country, even freedom of speech. It's not going well. So I think this is a real opportunity for people to see, yes, if you do get out and you do get active, there are other people there. You just have to seek them out." ..........Mary Steenburgen "It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something that the best people have always done." ..........Harriet Beecher Stowe "We realize that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere". ..........Martin Luther King, Jr. ..........Margaret Thatcher "It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." ..........Samuel Adams "Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it". ..........Chinese Proverb "Those who attack the rationale of the game, and not the players, are its most formidable adversaries". ..........James J. Martin "You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do." ..........Jane Fonda And when the telling is done and the voices of the voiceless have been heard, does storytelling not invoke a call to action? ..........Valerie Polakow "Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out their conscience, thus helping bring the collective conscience to life". ..........Norman Cousins "Freedom is like life. It cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible—we have it all, or we are not free". ..........Martin Luther King, Jr. "I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome". ..........Golda Meir "Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences." ..........Susan B. Anthony "Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable". ..........Coco Chanel "I am only one, but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something". ..........Helen Keller "...there are two ways to meet life; you may refuse to care until indifference becomes a habit, a defensive armor, and you are safe — but bored. Or you can care greatly, and live greatly — till life breaks you on its wheel". ..........Dorothy Canfield Fisher Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals". ..........Martin Luther King, Jr. "It doesn't take much to start a revolution of thought and spirit. It takes one person and then another and then another. We have to have the willingness to be respectful of each other and not to let differences become obstacles. We have the power to change things". ..........Lenny Zakim "The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exclusions and incapacitation's are removed." ..........Thomas Jefferson "Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.... Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people". ..........Albert Einstein "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man". ..........George Bernard Shaw "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has". ..........Margaret Mead "You must do the things you think you cannot do". ..........Eleanor Roosevelt "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws". ..........Tacitus "The rights of every person are diminished when the rights of one are threatened". ..........John F. Kennedy "Knowing is not enough; We must apply. Willing is not enough; We must do". ..........Goethe "Don’t be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin". ..........Grace Hansen |