You must protest /
It is your diamond duty /
Ah but in such an ugly time /
The true protest is beauty.
-Phil Ochs, folksinger (1940-1976)
must be right...
Habit with him was all the test of truth,
/ It must be right: I've done it from my youth.
-George Crabbe, poet and naturalist (1754-1832)
Rob the time
Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve,
/ I want to tie the two arms together,
/And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.
-Robert Bly, poet (1926-2021)
..I don't think
If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to him.
-Rebecca West, author and journalist (1892-1983)
...docorations
Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.
-Jean-Michel Basquiat, artist (1960-1988)
...do a little
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."
~ Edmund Burke
....is the mind of
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
-Steve Biko, anti-apartheid activist (1946-1977)
...on those who stand
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.
-Chinua Achebe, writer and professor (1930-2013)
-Chinua Achebe, writer and professor (1930-2013)
...shares the crime
He who allows oppression, shares the crime.
-Erasmus Darwin, physician, scientist, reformer, and poet; grandfather of Charles Darwin (1731-1802)
-Erasmus Darwin, physician, scientist, reformer, and poet; grandfather of Charles Darwin (1731-1802)
..truth must dazzle gradually
Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- /
...The Truth must dazzle gradually /
Or every man be blind.
-Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)
...The Truth must dazzle gradually /
Or every man be blind.
-Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)
Basic principles: The right to....
Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism: The right to criticize; The right to hold unpopular beliefs; The right to protest; The right of independent thought.
-Margaret Chase Smith, US senator (1897-1995)
-Margaret Chase Smith, US senator (1897-1995)
greater vanity
Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us vain, in fact, of our modesty.
-Louis Kronenberger, writer (1904-1980)
...influence never stops
"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."
~ Henry Adams
...country all the time
Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and the government when it deserves it.
-Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)
Beyond your... number of years
One trouble with living beyond your deserved number of years is that there's always some reason to live another year. And I'd like to live another year so that Nixon won't be President. If he's re-elected I'll have to live another four years.
-Rex Stout, novelist (1886-1975) [Nixon resigned in 1974.]
-Rex Stout, novelist (1886-1975) [Nixon resigned in 1974.]
...frightfulness is temporary
Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave. That is why I believe that this frightfulness we see everywhere today is only temporary. Tomorrow will be better for as long as America keeps alive the ideals of freedom and a better life.
-Walt Disney, entrepreneur and animator (1901-1966)
-Walt Disney, entrepreneur and animator (1901-1966)
you choose to...
The question is whether or not you choose to disturb the world around you, or if you choose to let it go on as if you had never arrived.
-Ann Patchett, writer (b. 2 Dec 1963)
Landscape of ...
We are a landscape of all we have seen.
-Isamu Noguchi, sculptor and architect (1904-1988)
-Isamu Noguchi, sculptor and architect (1904-1988)
...best men of all religions
Is there any religion whose followers can be pointed to as distinctly more amiable and trustworthy than those of any other? If so, this should be enough. I find the nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions.
-Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)
-Samuel Butler, writer (1835-1902)
...out of an unread book
Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.
-Holmes Rolston III, professor of philosophy
...don't burn
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.
- Norman Thomas, minister and social reformer
- Norman Thomas, minister and social reformer
...and commerce settles
When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree.
-William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827)
-William Blake, poet, engraver, and painter (1757-1827)
...take it from any
Use only that which works and take it from any place you can find it.
-Bruce Lee, martial artist and actor
-Bruce Lee, martial artist and actor
...bring us together
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
-Eugene Ionesco, playwright
-Eugene Ionesco, playwright
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