Reply #6: A few words from those who KNOW

[Eloriel]

Power concedes nothing withut a demand. It never had and never will. -- Frederick Douglass


It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -- Krishnamurti


Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them. -- Albert Einstein


When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. -- Eugene V. Debs


Do not submit. It is extremely critical that repression be met head on and that it be resisted with every fiber in our being. There is absolutely no compromise that can be made with it. As a matter of fact, compromise is what oppression feeds on. Without compromise it would be defeated. -- Harry Belafonte


Each of us is put here in this time and this place to personally decide the future of manking. Did you think you were put here for something less -- Chief Arvol Looking Horse
Props to SpiralHawk for having that in his sig line a while back.


When I despair, I remember that all thru history the wy of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invicible, but in the end they always fall. Always. -- Gandhi


When I care to be powerful -- to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it beomces less important whether I am afraid. -- Audre Lord


Cas your whole vote. A miority is powerless when it sides with the majority; it's not even a minority; but it becomes very powerful when it throws its whole weight against the majority. -- Ray McGovern, Veterans for Common Sense.org



Even after all this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
"You owe me."

Look what a love like that does
It lights up the whole world.

A poem the MC of Def Poetry Jam read the first time I ever saw that show. Does anyone know his name?


First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then you win. -- Gandhi



Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous" Actually, who are y ou not to be? You are a Child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of Gd that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are iberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -- Nelson Mandella



Posted in honor of Democracy's very own heroes right here at DU, DEMActivist and BevHarris.