Activist Quotes

Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for a number of years, parents become popular again when kids reach 20.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

Semi-automatic weapons have no socially redeeming purpose.

If we don't stand up for children, then we don't stand for much.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

When we have spiritual reading at meals, when we have the rosary at night, when we have study groups, forums, when we go out to distribute literature at meetings, or sell it on the street corners, Christ is there with us.

We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

We are the nation the most powerful, the most armed and we are supplying arms and money to the rest of the world where we are not ourselves fighting. We are eating while there is famine in the world.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him.

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

We believe in loving our brothers regardless of race, color or creed and we believe in showing this love by working for better conditions immediately and the ultimate owning by the workers of their means of production.

Our faith is stronger than death, our philosophy is firmer than flesh, and the spread of the Kingdom of God upon the earth is more sublime and more compelling.

Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and adrift, that he must seek strength in common action.

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.