Famous quotes by Activists

"Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish"

Samuel Gompers, Activist

"People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?"

Nhat Hanh, Activist

"To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them"

Jose Marti, Activist

"He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity"

Jose Marti, Activist

"To use for our exclusive benefit what is not ours is theft"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making"

Jose Marti, Activist

"But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. What greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove"

Jose Marti, Activist

"There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world"

Jose Marti, Activist

"He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief"

Jose Marti, Activist

"An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life"

Jose Marti, Activist

"A selfish man is a thief"

Jose Marti, Activist

"To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly"

Jose Marti, Activist

"The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets. Those who have you, O Liberty, do not know. You. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you"

Jose Marti, Activist

"It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state, a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo"

Jose Marti, Activist

"A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy"

Jose Marti, Activist

"It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing"

Jose Marti, Activist

"The force of passion is balanced by the force of interest"

Jose Marti, Activist

"One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve"

Jose Marti, Activist

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