#ed

Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom hardens, and by and by it is the old face of tyranny. Then another cycle, and another. But under the play of all these opposites there is something fundamental and permanent — the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#freedom #change

With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of what’s silenced drifts. Just like the blood that bursts from Your eye or mouth or ear, so your key changes. Changing your key changes the word That may drift with flakes. Just like the wind that rebuffs you, Clenched round your word is the snow. ↗

— Paul Celan

#silenced #snow #word #change

Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind you. If a petite, abused slave can rise up, fight for freedom, secure the freedom of others, and change her world, so can I. And so can you. ↗

— Susie Larson

#inspirational #change

It's only a house when it's filled with people you love. ↗

— Andrea Thompson

#house #love #only #people #you

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. ↗

— J. P. Morgan

#concrete #difficulty #element #essential #form

I think, as I've gotten older I have realized what a huge privilege it is to even be in this business. I, more than ever, love what I do. ↗

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

#even #ever #gotten #huge #i

No!" He recoiled. "You and I are finished." "Son..." I started. But he rounded on me. "Do you think me so soft that calling me son might change my mind? How long did you sit on this information? Or am I to believe you only discovered it now? My mother's blood may stain another's hands, but Charles Lee is no less a monster, and all he does, he does by your command. ↗

— Oliver Bowden

#change

Then sudden Felagund there swaying Sang in answer a song of staying, Resisting, battling against power, Of secrets kept, strength like a tower, And trust unbroken, freedom, escape; Of changing and of shifting shape, Of snares eluded, broken traps, The prison opening, the chain that snaps. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#freedom #magic #power #change

Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather than what you think, consider instead how you feel. Look to the nature of things. Feel your choices and decisions. It just might change everything. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#choosing #feel #feelings #heart-and-soul #the-nature-of-things

The public option is not optional. It is our toe-hold on structural change. ↗

— Ellen Shaffer

#courage #equality #freedom #inspirational #life