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“Nothing has given me more hope recently than to observe how simple conversations give birth to actions that can change lives and restore our faith in the future. There is no more powerful way to initiate significant social change than to start a conversation. When a group of people discover that they share a common concern, that's when the process of change begins.”
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“There's no tiling moral about beauty.”
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“Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength”
Source : Barbara Katz Rothman (2016). “A Bun in the Oven: How the Food and Birth Movements Resist Industrialization”, p.48, NYU Press
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“I watched the way they looked at each other. Any idiot could see they were in love, even if they were the only two idiots who couldn't.”
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“Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; as true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.”
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“Any anxious thought as to the means to be employed in the accomplishment of our purposes is quite unnecessary. If the end is already secured, then it follows that all the steps leading to it are secured also.”
Source : Thomas Troward (2007). “The Edinburgh and Dore Lectures on Mental Science”, p.35, Cosimo, Inc.
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“Besides all this, if you are idle, and take to bad courses, you will hurt those of your brethren who are slaves, and do all in your power to prevent their being free.”
Source : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
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“Dedication to one's work in the world is the only possible sanctifica-tion. Religion in all its forms is dedication to Someone Else's work, not yours.”
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“Needing people yet being afraid of them is wearing me out.”
Source : Janice Galloway (2010). “The Trick Is To Keep Breathing”, p.48, Random House
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“Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance.”