Established in the Self, perform actions. Bhagavad Gita
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Denise Evans <dmevans365@...> wrote: > > "Protest" was the topic of this month's Sunbeamquotes from Sun Magazine > (http://www.thesunmagazine.org/).  In solidarity with the Wall Street > protesters, I have typed out these contributions. > > > "So exiled have even basic questions of freedom become from the political > vocabulary that they sound musty and ridiculous, and vulnerable to the > ultimate badge of shame â" "That's so sixties!" â" the entire decade having > been mocked so effectively that social protest seems outlandish and "so > last-century," just another style excess like love beads and Nehru jackets." > ~Laura Kipnis > > "We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. >  We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive." > ~ Martin Luther King > > "There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there > must never be a time when we fail to protest." > ~Elie Wiesel > > "Around the time my mother taught me how to tie my shoes, she also taught me > how to protest.  Her rules were simple: look respectable, act respectable, > and don't give the opposition any ammunition.  Together we buttoned those > top buttons and combed our hair for peace, civil rights, the ERA.  You name > it, we marched for it.  In sensible shoes." > ~Julia King > > "WHAT DO WE WANT?! Respectful discourse  WHEN DO WE WANT IT?! Now would be > agreeable to me, but I am interested in your opinion." > ~ Message on a protest sign > > The question is not "Can you make a difference?"  You already do make a > difference.  It's just a matter of what kind of difference you want to make > during your life on this planet." > ~Julia Butterfly Hill > > "Find your place on the planet, dig in, and take responsibility from there." > ~Gary Snyder > > "I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the > government.  I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who > chooses to do it." > ~Martin Sheen > > "Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced > mankind and enriched the world." > ~Emma Goldman > > "It takes six simpletons and one zealot to start a movement." > ~Anzia Yezierska > > "Activism is my rent for living on this planet." > ~Alice Walker > > "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get > better.  It's not." > > ~Dr. Seuss > > "Nobody can give you freedom.  Nobody can give you equality or justice or > anything.  If you're a man, you take it." > ~Malcolm X > > "So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog.  Let > us just try to be little fleas biting.  Enough fleas biting strategically > can make a big dog very uncomfortable." > ~Marion Wright Edelman > > > > > >  > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.thesunmagazine.org/ >
