“Drinking water to hydrate yourself is not hydrationism, it's just life, likewise, standing up to the inhumanities of society is not activism, it's just humanity.”
Source: Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered
“A Christian Country
God slumbers in a back alley
With a gin bottle in His hand.
Come on, God, get up and fight
Like a man.”
Source: Good Morning, Revolution: Uncollected Social Protest Writings
“It was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience. it was an army that would move but not maul. It was an army that would sing but not slay. It was an army that would flank but not falter. It was an army to storm bastions of hatred, to lay siege to the fortresses of segregation, to surround symbols of discrimination. It was an army whose allegiance was to God and whose strategy and intelligence were the eloquently simple dictates of conscience.
Why We Can't Wait 1963”
“First law of responsible activism - make way for the ambulance, otherwise, there's no difference between you and a petty terrorist.”
Source: Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live
“There are approximately 1,010,300 words in the English language, but I could never string enough words together to properly express how much I want to hit you with a chair." (Alexander Hamilton, to Thomas Jefferson)”
“What we learn to call "natural" is actually just the dominant culture's interpretation of history.”
Source: Beyond Beliefs: A Guide to Improving Relationships and Communication for Vegans, Vegetarians, and Meat Eaters
“The hardest thing of being a man for me is not knowing you have done or said something wrong, but everyday being persecuted for it . A man can never defend himself for any wrong doing, because even the guilty ones claim they are innocent. Yet true innocent ones, always get wrongfully convicted. While guilty ones walk free.”
“Marxism is the science of the laws governing the development of nature and society, the science of the revolution of the oppressed and exploited masses, the science of the victory of socialism in all countries, the science of building communist society.”
“but the Mime protested without talking and that were the kind of activists the racist misogynist homophobic xenophobic non-claustrophobic because he worked in a nightclub owner preferred as he agreed everyone had a voice as long as they didn’t speak with it.”
Source: A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites
“Either you act or you don't, there's no hoping.”
Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law