Jessie Sampter quotes

Freedom is dearer than bread or joy.
-- Jessie Sampter

#Peace #Freedom #Joy

God gave a law ... called justice. But they have made a law for themselves that is terrible and intricate, and they cannot escape it, for the evil will and the good will are caught alike in its meshes, and it is darkness to the eyes that see and a stumbling block to the feet that run. This law is called necessity.
-- Jessie Sampter

#Running #Block #Eye

[Keeping kosher was] the symbol of an initiation, like the insignia of a secret brotherhood, that set her apart and gave her freedom and dignity. Every law whose yoke she accepted willingly seemed to add to her freedom: she herself had chosen . . . To enter that brotherhood. Her Judaism was no longer a stigma, a meaningless accident of birth from which she could escape . . . It had become a distinction, the essence of her self-hood, what she was, what she wanted to be, not merely what she happened to be.
-- Jessie Sampter

#Women #Self #Law

My heart went out, seeking the God of my people. In thousands of homes those white candles burned tonight. I joined an invisible congregation.
-- Jessie Sampter

#Women #Home #Heart

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.