Quotes About Responsibility

In truth, we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.

Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democracy.

punished people sometimes pass punishment downward, especially to members of their own devalued group.

If feminism means anything, it means taking responsibility for ourselves: for our own lives and actions. It is not "women as victims" but women refusing to be victims. What we need, as adults or children, is just one person who has confidence in us, so we can have confidence in ourselves.

Men would support us, we are told, if only we learned how to ask in the right way. It's a subtle and effective way of not only blaming the victim, but making the victim blame herself.

Also reporters kept asking Ferraro if a woman could be "tough enough" to "push the button," meaning declare a war, though they didn't ask male candidates if they could be wise enough not to.

Father Egan continues to write about everything from the injustice of current wars to the past and future of Catholic mysticism. In the Catholic Reporter, he publishes an article titled "Celibacy, a Vague Old Cross on Priestly Backs", and explains that it started "only in 1139 when the church no longer wanted to be financially responsible for the children of priests.

Women can't have it all if that means doing it all.

Wilma said many Native people believed that the earth as a living organism would just one day shrug off the human species that was destroying it— and start over. In a less cataclysmic vision, humans would realize that we are killing our home and each other, and seek out The Way. That's why Native people were guarding it.

Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing you teeth.

Looking at international economic life brings to mind the ancient image of the world riding on the back of a turtle—only in reality, the turtle is a woman. She inches along, laboring just beneath the level of economic visibility, often blaming herself for not being able to bear more weight. Occasionally, she retreats into her shell, as if withdrawal were the only form of rebellion. But only when she upsets its balance will the world roll off her back.

All my years of campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To

Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still

If I pressed and said, "But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't matter, that she was lucky to have my sister and me. If I pressed hard enough, she would add, "If I'd left, you never would have been born." I never had the courage to say: But you would have been born instead.

If you're lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle," she said patiently, "you don't send somebody to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. You get it off!

politics are a part of daily life.

Voting isn't the most we can do, but it's the least.

Saying politics is dirty is just a way of keeping us from changing the politics of our own lives.

Exodus 21:22–23, a passage that says a man who causes a pregnant woman to miscarry must pay a fine but is not charged with murder, not unless the woman herself dies. Thus the Bible is making clear that a dependent life is not the same as an independent life.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; A movement is only people moving.

But will you not have a house to care for? Meals to cook? Children whining for this or that? Will you have time for the work?" "I'll make time," I promised. "The house will not always be so clean, the cooking may be a little hasty, and the whining children will sit on my lap and I'll sing to them while I work.

You're making yourself too important. Guilt comes from feeling we're at the center of the universe. We're not.

You can either choose the pain of discipline now, or the pain of regret later. Regret lasts longer.

Josh Riebock, in his book Heroes and Monsters, says, "Everyone can change tomorrow. Everyone solves problems tomorrow. But the only changes that matter are the ones I make today. Tomorrow is the easiest day I'll ever live. Today is the scary one, which is probably why I've spent so much time avoiding it."[5]