Quotes About Responsibility

Now she has headed back up toward the Chalet. Has her father signaled her in some way? I don't see any sign of him. He never seems to pay any attention to her nor tries to know where she is. Polly found his behavior negligent, but perhaps Nan is—in general—better off for it. Not every parent pays attention in a way that is to the child's benefit.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

We're the result of the choices we make everyday, and this is my choice.

My love for the child asleep in the crib, the child's need for me, for my vigilance, had made my life valuable in a way that even the most abundantly offered love, my parents', my brother's, even Tom's, had failed to do. Love was required of me now--to be given, not merely to be sought and returned.

We become free by transforming ourselves from unaware victims of the past into responsible individuals in the present, who are aware of our past and are thus able to live with it.

I could have stayed out of this one; I didn't.

My history and civilization are literally melting; everyone knows.

What can we do about our world? Why do you all make me struggle?

And all of that destruction belongs to you. The destruction can't be healed, we are murderers.

I know there are other things to do, and we chose this. We had to.

why don't they lift their weight and see what's flattened underneath it?

In Detroit we understand the phrase "Affirmative Action" a little different than they do in the rest of the world. In Detroit it means: Take a step, don't step back, don't talk, don't wait—act! Knock your brother upside his head and drag him through the water, but save his life. Affirmative action is a lifesaving dance.

Most of the time I liked being in charge of my life, thrived on it, in fact. But occasionally, when I was tired or unhappy. I'd find myself thinking how nice it would be to let someone else run the show, at least for a while.

When I looked back at my days of being a wife and mother, one of the things that most amazed me was that every day I was the one who made the decision as to what three other people would eat. It tired me out just to think about...

Many people are aware that we are in peril and that there is no trustworthy leadership.

My activism really is for myself, because I see places in the world where I feel I should be. If there is something really bad, really evil, happening somewhere, then that is where I should be. I need, for myself, to feel that I have stood there. It feels a lot better than just watching it on television.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn't want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

In these early anonymous seasons, God graciously grants us the opportunity to wrestle with our appetites before other lives are at stake, to struggle with our passions privately before moral collapse affects the innocent publicly.

Holy gets angry. So does this mean we need to buy ropes and start making whips? No. But perhaps we need to stop hiding safely behind hashtag campaigns and instead show up and speak out.

What might be the fruit of fasting stinginess? What would happen if our churches fasted spectatorship? What might occur if our families fasted accumulation? What could change if our offices fasted revisionism? What might erupt if a new generation fasted escapism? Such fasts could trigger a spiritual revolution.

there are always four choices to every decision: the wise choice, the foolish choice, the safe choice and the choice that someone else makes for you.