#activism

This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#service #family

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#justice #justice

If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#activist #competitive #gender-stereotypes #stereotypes

It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. ↗

— Samuel Adams

#minority #freedom

We cannot do everything, but we can all do something. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#make-a-difference #faith

I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#demonstration #i #i do #i write #personal

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#service #life

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#service #love

Activism could be defined as activities engaged in by individuals to change there of others situation. ↗

— Ben Edwards

#activities #change #could #defined #engaged

For the progressive left, social activism grounded in faith and theology crested in the 1960s. ↗

— Mike McCurry

#faith #grounded #left #progressive #social