Quotes About Action

Flo especially took me in hand. When I felt I had to prove the existence of discrimination with statistics, for instance, she pulled me aside. 'If you're lying in the ditch with a truck on your ankle,' she said patiently, 'you don't send someone to the library to find out how much the truck weighs. You get it off!

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

All my years campaigning have given me one clear message: Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still, I realize this fully only by looking back.

we have to behave as if everything we do matters. Because it might.

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.

Whatever you want to do, just do it. Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.

There is power in proximity. Get close to the problem you feel drawn to. Change the narrative. Stay hopeful. Be willing to do uncomfortable things.

I don't think feminism can just be imitative or integrationist. By definition, it must transform. But in the short run, there are goals we agree on. And it's in the short run that we must act.

we don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But

When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel... Taking to the road — by which I mean letting the road take you — changed who I thought I was. The road is messy in the way that real life is messy. It leads us out of denial and into reality, out of theory and into practice, out of caution and into action, out of statistics and into stories —in short, out of our heads and into our hearts.

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

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

to making revolution, not just dinner.

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!

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

YOU CANNOT THINK YOURSELF INTO RIGHT LIVING. YOU LIVE YOURSELF INTO RIGHT THINKING. —NATIVE ELDERS IV.

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

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

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]

Procrastination isn't a sign there's something wrong with us but that there's opportunity for growth in our lives.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance; but he has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination. St. Augustine

Any calling to better the world no matter how small is the highest.