insightful quotes

If you've come to help me you're wasting your time, but if you've come
because your liberation is tied up with mine, then let us work
together."                                    ~Lila Watson

"The most common way people give up their power is by 
thinking they don’t have any."     ~Alice Walker

"If people don't have their own vision, 
    all they can do is "sign up" for someone else's.  
          The result is compliance, not commitment."
                                              ~Senge

"Change in the middle looks like failure."    ~Kaleel Jamison

"In the journey to social justice, small steps sometimes lead 
to unexpected leaps of progress."             ~Robert Thurman

"Those who think it's a level playing field usually have box seats." 
                                                         ~Anon                                   

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways
you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all 
the people you can, as long as you ever can.  ~John Wesley

"Touching the present moment is the door to everything."
                                              ~Thich Nhat Hanh
 
"Cut your chains and you are free, cut your roots and you die." 
                                              ~African Proverb

Cutting your chains is a liberation attempt, cutting your roots is a
suicide attempt.                         ~Nana

"When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion."      
                                              ~Ethiopian Proverb

"The true meaning of life is to plant a tree under whose shade 
you do not expect to sit."           ~Nathaniel Henderson-

No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the grain which it awakes into 
existence needs time to grow; and it is not always granted to the sower 
to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.
                                              ~Albert Schweitzer