Personal And Gathered Quotes

 

“Indoctrination is on the same level as substance abuse” – Unknown

“You have to corrupt your own morality to accept their immorality” – Unknown

“When you are kind the whole world sees it, even when it feels like no one is watching” – Inti Gonzalez

“Speedwalking to jobs they hate” – Unknown

“My hometown cannot accomidate my body, and a forein land cannot accomidate my soul.”
– Resident of China

“Lifting our voices for all Palestinian Freedom will never be anything but an embracement of love and Justice for all” – Angela Davis

“If you speak up and do the right thing good things will come for you regardless of what you lose in the process.” – Sammy Obeid

“Everyone wants a village, but no one wants to be a villager.” — Cassie McClure

With justice comes peace – Inti Gonzalez

“It comes as a great shock around the age of five or six or seven to discover the flag to which you have pledged allegiance, along with everybody else, has not pledged allegiance to you.”
– James Baldwin

The more responsibility, the more power – Inti Gonzalez

“Workers make the world run
Workers should run the world” – Unknown

“Time spent with cats is never wasted.”
– Sigmund Freud

“What we leave behind us is, in fact, not our opinions but our examples.” – Isherwood

“Everyone talks about peace but no one educates for peace. In this world, they educate for competition, and competition is the beginning of any war. When educating to cooperate and owe each other solidarity, that day we will be educating for peace.”
– Maria Montessori

“Violent silence” – Inti Gonzalez

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
– Carl Yung

“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for” – Unknown

“If you have every wondered what you’d do during slavery, the Holocaust or civil rights movements; you’re doing it right now.”
– Gaza Protester

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
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” The strongest movements are built on knowledge”
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” Learn history, so we don’t repeat it. Learn science, so we can heal the planet. Learn strategy, so we can win.”
– Nelson Mandela

It all starts with a choice – Inti Gonzalez

“You live in a city and all the time theirs signs telling you what to do and billboards trying to say something and I always felt that it was alright to turn it back a little bit, I suppose.”
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“The city shouldn’t just be a one way conversation.”
– Banksy on why he does street art

“If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
-Malcom X

“Everything can change. every single thing. nothing is immutable. once you know that- once you believe that everything can change and everything that has been changed matters- that’s when we transformed the world around us. ”
– Mikaela Loach

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world; Indeed, It’s the Only Thing That Ever Has.”
– Margaret Mead

We are not outnumbered we are out organized – Unknown

“UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss

“Where there’s injustice, I always believed in fighting. The question is, do you fight to change things or to punish?” – 
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“There is enough for everyone’s needs,
but there will never be enough for a single man’s greed.”
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“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind”
– Mahatma Gandhi

Justice is love in action – Unknown

“Divide and conquer” – Unknown

“Unite the many to defeat the few.” – Unknown 

“You can’t claim moral superiority when asking for support, but then moral equivalence to excuse your crimes.” – Unknown discussion on Palestine
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“The history of World War II is complicated, the history of human slavery is complicated, but the acts of genocide and slavery are not morally complex at all.” – Unknown

“find the good in everybody” – Bus passenger

“Educations is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think” – Albert Einstein

“Words are, in my utmost humble opinion, our most in exhaustible source of magic.” – Dumbledore

“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”
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“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends”
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” It really boils down to this:
That all life is interrelated… Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
– Martin Luther King

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“News is what someone, somewhere, doesn’t want reported: all the rest is advertisement.”
– William Randolph Hearst

How loud do I need to screen for you to hear me?
– Inti Gonzalez

“What we do to the world we do to ourselves, what we do to ourselves we do to the world”
– Inti Gonzalez

“America has upgraded from domestic to mostly foreign slavery” – Inti Gonzalez

“I love this world no matter how imperfect,
I love my country no matter how imperfect,
I love myself no matter how imperfect.”
– Inti Gonzalez