Showing posts with label activist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label activist. Show all posts

Monday, August 26, 2013

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Alice Walker

 "Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
Alice Walker

Monday, January 16, 2012

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 "History will have to record that the 
greatest tragedy of this period of 
social transition was not the strident clamor 
of the bad people, but the 
appalling silence of the good people."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Alvin Ailey

 "Racism tears down your insides 
so that no matter what you achieve, 
you're not quite up to snuff."
Alvin Ailey

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Sunday, November 15, 2009

Zana Briski

Something very ugly to you as a person can look beautiful through the viewfinder, but being able to find that beauty, oftentimes, means seeing the humanity within the frame. If you turn that off completely, you don't see at all.
Zana Briski

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Ted Kennedy (1932-2009)

With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race, gender against gender, ethnic group against ethnic
group, and straight against gay.

Ted Kennedy

Monday, August 17, 2009

Mandy Patinkin

I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I`m lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that`s if I`m lucky, I don`t always get to have that privilege
but I try always.

Mandy Patinkin