#lis

Understand: the task of an activist is not to negotiate systems of power with as much personal integrity as possible--it's to dismantle those systems. ↗

— Lierre Keith

#environment #environmentalism #radicalism #vegetarianism #food

Not only did God deliver me from the bondage of alcoholism, he also blessed my family financially because of my commitment to honor what he had done for me and for not doing what I believed could possibly be destructive to others. ↗

— Richard Kiel

#also #because #believed #blessed #bondage

The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#destruction #english #english countryside #genuine #growth

Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English. ↗

— Luis Fortuno

#english #fluent #over #parents #percent

There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones. ↗

— Daniel Dae Kim

#just #listening #much #ones #relationships

Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular. ↗

— Alveda King

#accomplishing #black #black community #born #community

President Obama is traveling around the country, proposing a stimulus bill that has already failed once. Instead of having an honest discussion about whether or not a plan that already failed once will fail again, the establishment would rather distract the American people with gossip. ↗

— Alveda King

#again #already #american #american people #around

I remind myself every morning: Nothing I say this day will teach me anything. So if I'm going to learn, I must do it by listening. ↗

— Larry King

#anything #day #every #going #i

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#block #dams #dangerously #establishing #exist

Spiritual literature can be a great aid to an aspirant, or it can be a terrible hindrance. If it is used to inspire practice, motivate compassion, ad nourish devotion, it serves a very valuable purpose. If scriptural study is used for mere intellectual understanding, for pride of accomplishment, or as a substitute for actual practice, then one is taking in too much mental food, which is sure to result in intellectual indigestion. (152) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#compassion #devotion #inspiration #intellectual #knowledge