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Courageous Quotes — page 283 of 1106
“Sexism has never rendered women powerless. It has either suppressed their strength or exploited it.”
“The soul of our politics is the commitment to ending domination.”
“schools for love do not exist. everyone assumes that we will know how to love instinctively. despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, we still accept that the family is the primary school for love. those of us who do not learn how to love among family are expected to experience love in romantic relationships. however this love often eludes us.”
“I was always a friend of southern rights, but an enemy of southern wrongs.”
“The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.”
“I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.”
“There comes a time when people with values simply have to stand up. Think about Nazi, Germany. Most of those people did not believe in what Hitler was doing.”
“The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.”
“Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.”
“Thousands of people have tried, and the evidence is clear: The more you trade, the less you keep.”
“He who shares the danger ought to share the prize.”
“War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political. That a war can be represented as helping a people to 'feel good' about themselves, or their country, is a measure of that failure.”
“As her sons have seen her: the mother in patriarchy: controlling, erotic, castrating, heart-suffering, guilt-ridden, and guilt-provoking; a marble brow, a huge breast, an avid cave; between her legs snakes, swamp-grass, or teeth; on her lap a helpless infant or a martyred son. She exists for one purpose: to bear and nourish the son.”
“We do have a Godly heritage in America, but we have been robbed - robbed by the 3 percent.”
“When we see others as the enemy, we risk becoming what we hate. When we oppress others, we end up oppressing ourselves. All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others.”
“We must stop climate change. And we can, if we use the tactics that worked in South Africa against the worst carbon emitters.”
“The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.”
“It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.”
“What if every church in America had a ministry to stand against modern slavery?”