Quotes about Action

Once I found an issue enough people cared about, I could take them into action. With enough actions, I could start to build power. Issues

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

If your next-door neighbor's house is on fire, you don't want the fire department dispatcher asking whether it was caused by lightning or by someone smoking in bed before agreeing to send a fire truck; you just want the fire put out before it reaches your house.

The cynics may be the loudest voices, but I promise you, they will accomplish the least.

We did not come here to fear the future. We came here to shape it.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or time. We are the ones we've been waiting for change we seek.

Justifying the past mattered less than planning what to do next.

Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?

We must talk and reach for common understandings, precisely because all of us are imperfect and can never act with the certainty that God is on our side; and yet at times we must act nonetheless, as if we are certain, protected from error only by providence.

You think you're no good, so you can't do good things. Jesus, Codi, how long are you going to keep limping around on that crutch? It's the other way around, it's what you *do* that makes you who you are.

A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.

You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist of history rather than a spectator.