activist Quotes

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

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• Happiness

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

• 370
• Humanity

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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• learning

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.

• 301
• conflict

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.

• 219
• Love

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

• 212
• Change

Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

• 210
• speak

Without education, you're not going anywhere in this world.

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• education

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

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• beings

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words.

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• positive

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

• 145
• fight

Be congruent, be authentic and be yourself.

• 134
• yourself

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

• 129
• education

If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

• 117
• motivational

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

• 115
• Speech

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

• 113
• actions

Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow's reality.

• 110
• dreams

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

• 102
• love

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

• 101
• becomes

You are either part of the solution or part of the problem.

• 81
• Choice

We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

• 78
• inspirational

They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them.

• 75
• Self

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

• 73
• capacity

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

• 73
• Understanding

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

• 69
• Forgiveness

Where there is love there is life.

• 61
• Love

If you don't ask, you don't get.

• 60
• Questions

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

• 53
• cleanliness

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

• 51
• belief

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences.

• 45
• power

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

• 45
• positive

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

• 42
• Conflict

Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

• 38
• Responsibility

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

• 30
• Music

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

• 29
• relationship

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

• 27
• belief

There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.

• 27
• Hate

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

• 26
• accomplishment

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

• 26
• religion

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

• 26
• Love

Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.

• 25
• Power

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

• 24
• Prayer

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

• 24
• Life

There is enough in this world for everyone's need, but not for everyone's greed.

• 22
• abundance

Give light and people will find the way.

• 22
• inspirational

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

• 22
• Purpose

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

• 22
• Pride

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

• 22
• Patriotism

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

• 22
• Leadership

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

• 22
• Freedom