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I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that died hard, if it ever really died at all.
— Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life
Sometimes miracles happen in this world simply because good people take action and decide to do something, and never give up.
— Eileen Anglin
If you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without every having noticed it.
— C.S. Lewis
Change itself is not a choice, but you can choose to be willing to change and you can choose to will the changes that you want. Willing Change
— Jane   Collins, Willing Change
Change is inevitable, continuous, and constant. Expectations of anything or anyone remaining the same can only lead to struggles and hardships. Willing Change
— Jane   Collins, Willing Change
Being willing and able to adapt quickly to changes has been proven many times to be a key quality in success. Willing Change
— Jane   Collins, Willing Change
One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary.
— John Ruskin
The fundamental language of life is change. Life will keep on changing.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone
Positivity is good, but positivity that is rooted in God is power
— Ngina Otiende, Navigating Change: Why You Don't Have to Drown
Everything will change in your life when you finally learn that you deserve SO MUCH BETTER
— Karen  Gibbs
Until we become the change we seek, the change we seek will never come.
— Carlos Wallace, Life Is Not Complicated-You Are: Turning Your Biggest Disappointments Into Your Greatest Blessings
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
— A.C. Benson
Change yourself before changing anyone else
— Nourhan Mamdouh
You can't look back. Nothing you can do to change it. Only forward.
— Jen Calonita, There's No Place Like Home
Implement an outstanding idea to yield you back a priceless life.
— Nazim Ambalath
See that path in front of you? That path has been laid before you, the one that you’re supposed to take, the one you’re told to take through life…just like everyone else. If you follow that path, you’ll be following all the rules, you’ll always know that you did what everyone wanted you to do and you’ll make it through…See that path in front of you? I dare you to step off and make your own.
— Travis Culliton
change.
— Mara Schiavocampo
Trying to change someone only makes them cling to their existing behavior with brutish, primal force.
— Brian D'Ambrosio, Fresh Oil and Loose Gravel: Road Poetry by Brian D'Ambrosio 1998-2008
Immature people want quick fixes; they are the all or nothing thinkers. Evolving adults know that lasting change means being committed to the small daily steps over the long-term, deliberate journey.
— Shannon Tanner, Worthy: The POWER of Wholeness
The paradox of quantum physics in the 21st Century, awakens us to the realisation that "nothing matters" in and of itself. That nothing can be stated with certainty; but everything is just a mathematical probability occurring in an instance of space-time convergence, which forms our objective reality in the present moment.
— Denis John George, The '3-3-3' Enigma: An Invitation To Consciously Create Your Reality
Don't let the Sun go down on you today. Be the light instead, that shines forth and touches everyone's shadow, awakening them to that light.
— Denis John George, The '3-3-3' Enigma: An Invitation To Consciously Create Your Reality
Change is inevitable! Repentance is the Christian constant!
— Gary Rohrmayer
Repentance is a softening of ones heart and a realigning of ones affections.
— Gary Rohrmayer
New Beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.
— Auliq Ice
The boy I once was is a stranger to me, and sometimes I wonder if terrible experiences are enough to change a person - I mean fundamentally to change a person's nature - or if they merely subdue it, and it endures there beneath, and will reassert itself in time. I wonder if I will be recognized by my family. If those I love will still know me.
— Peter Hobbs, In the Orchard, the Swallows
Change is possible. You must want it enough for the change to take place.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Things fucking change, dude! Life changes. Priorities change. Pre-fucking-conceived notions change. You have to adjust and change with them or your ass gets left behind.
— K.Bromberg
It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching — it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life.
— Robin S. Sharma
To change, you need to accept your past and deny to be challenged and overcome by your future.
— Auliq Ice
We are blessed beyond belief. I'm not normal. won't let this unique soul go to waste. fuck what people say.
— Jessiie Mahadeo
When your mind is still and undisturbed by stimulation, the true nature naturally shines out and you can directly see what you really are.
— Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential
We are all broken, but none of us are beyond fixing".
— Bella Forrest, A Shadow of Light
Don’t waste your entire life always waiting for the end of the day, for the weekend, for summer, for things to change, for something better. Enjoy as much of the present as you can. Now is happening. Now is good. Now belongs to you.
— Emm Roy, The First Step
If you do what you’ve always done, you get what you’ve always gotten. If you want something different, then make something different.
— H.M. Ward, SECRETS Vol. 4
We cannot change outcomes, but we can change causes
— Seth Czerepak
That's where we start making changes From the deepest and softest.It's not the world that we needed to change It is the people who inhabit the world. It's not machines that we need to change. It is the people who use those machines. Even with people we can start the change from the softer things such as the way we breathe, and the way we feel about or toward other people and other living beings. These soft parts shape Our behaviors and our choices, both on a personal and a global scale. In this respect, they are fundamental, more so than any material changes.
— Ilchi Lee, Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential
Yet hopefully things are different now, and I'm moving on to something better rather than attempting to suck more out of the same stale situation.
— Doug   Cooper, Outside In
Give up your attachment to comfortable ways of living - show yourself in the gymnasium (gymnos = 'naked'), prove that you are not indifferent to the difference between perfect and imperfect, demonstrate to us that achievement - excellence, arete, virtu - has not remained a foreign word to you, admit that you have motives for new endeavours! Above all: only grant the suspicion that sport is a pastime for the most stupid as much space as it deserves, do not misuse it as a pretext to drift further in your customary state of self-neglect, distrust the philistine in yourself who thinks you are just fine as you are! Hear the voice from the stone, do not resist the call to get in shape! Seize the chance to train with a god!
— Peter Sloterdijk, Du mußt dein Leben ändern
To change the world, a country, an organization, a community, a relationship, begin with the smallest seed of change: begin with yourself. That is what this book is all about.
— Gloria Burgess, Dare to Wear Your Soul on the Outside: Live Your Legacy Now
If fear is holding you back in life, you must attack it, Kate. Not make excuses about why you cannot attempt what you wish to do. That you can't because you're a woman. Especially you, given that your parents educated you as a son.
— Gaelen Foley, My Dangerous Duke
Don't let yesterday’s storm keep you from enjoying today's sunshine.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I don't go after him. He's a funny sort of boy. I've known that from the start. Not just because he seems angry and contemptuous or the way he walks like a tough guy. Because of his smile - it's a child's smile.
— Delphine de Vigan, No and Me
The most important truths are those which sustain us in our daily lives.
— Marty Rubin
Everyday, you leave a footprint!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a century of 'too little time'.
— Joshua Krook, Us vs Them: A Case for Social Empathy
For the wine of Clochemerle is at once exquisite and treacherous; it charms first the nose, then the palate, finally the entire man. Mark well that if it makes a man drunk it does not do so malignantly. It produces an enchanting light-heartedness, an intellectual sparkle which liberates the drinker from the constraints and conventions which bind him in his daily life.
— Gabriel Chevallier, Clochemerle Babylon
The miracle lies in the newness of a morning.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial and performative aspect has slipped into invisibility.
— David Byrne, How Music Works
Against an economism void of values other than those of exchange, protest stood for reuniting the festival and daily life, for transforming daily life into a site of desire and pleasure. The protesters were protesting against the fact, simultaneously obvious and ignored, that delight and joy, pleasure and desire, desert a society that is content with satisfaction—that is to say, catalogued, created needs that procure some particular object and evaporate in it.
— Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life
As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.
— David Byrne, How Music Works
Fathers left distinctive footprints
—  sons should think of noble footsteps
If you are going to start, don't quit. But if you are going to quit, don't even start!
— Hannah Sulfridge
If you work you will never go hungry.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.
— Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
I cried because sometimes no matter what you try to hide behind— letters or texts or emails or a busy schedule— life still finds a way to barrel through all the distractions. And life still hurts. Even though it's beautiful.
— Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
Sometimes I really want to lease a suite in a Davy Jones’s Locker and spend several hours, being immersed in reminiscence and exultation. All the gadgets and cell phone connection won’t work there, it could be the most cherished and long-awaited moment. But with the tremendous pace of life and daily miseries I simply cannot afford even this instant. It’s so trite and rueful.
— Alexander Zalan
As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.
— Alexander Zalan, Inspiration Per Moment
You drive, walk, eat, look at television, read, and all the while, beyond you and the cozy circle created by your lady around herself and you, like the natural emanations of stars, other lives circle yours, seeds still winged and wind-borne, looking for sympathetic soil. You feel the juices and solids of your body in attempted rearrangement, or, more disturbing, making an effort to create a stillness that approximates death, beyond which the body does become soil, receptive to all wind-borne seeds. In a not especially prolonged stillness, as though no chances could be taken that you might decide to become perpetual motion, words fall out of the air, a random fall from which you might be tempted to make selection, and as you do not move, cannot, a string of words falls onto you, and from you, onto the paper: winter rye greening up, smoothing the old brown earth with a fine new plane: Carpenter Rye, neighbor.
— Coleman Dowell, Island People
It's hard to explain how this works, and I admit that it's fairly implausible or untenable as a way of life, but that seems to be how I go about my days: peaceably in person, fiercely on paper.
— Katie Roiphe, In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays
There are no conditions to which a man cannot become used, especially if he sees that all around him are living in the same way.
— Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble.
— Martin Luther
I salute your level of patience if you watch these daily soaps. I cannot kill because there's not enough space for graveyards.
— Himmilicious
There lay certitude; there, in the daily round.  All the rest hung on mere threads and trivial contingencies; you couldn't waste your time on it. The thing was to do your job as it should be done.
— Albert Camus, The Plague
This. I live in this place, make porridge, scrub toilets, do laundry, and for days, weeks, I am brave and I do get out of bed and I think on this. I study this, the full life, the being fully ready for the end. I start to think that maybe there is a way out of nightmares to dreams? Maybe?
— Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
Wake up each day and make the best of it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
For you little gardener and lover of trees, I have only a small gift. Here is set G for Galadriel, but it may stand for garden in your tongue. In this box there is earth from my orchard, and such blessing as Galadriel has still to bestow is upon it. It will not keep you on your road, nor defend you against any peril; but if you keep it and see your home again at last, then perhaps it may reward you. Though you should find all barren and laid waste, there will be few gardens in Middle-earth that will bloom like your garden, if you sprinkle this earth there. Then you may remember Galadriel, and catch a glimpse far off of Lórien, that you have seen only in our winter. For our spring and our summer are gone by, and they will never be seen on earth again save in memory.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again.
— Cormac McCarthy, The Road
I know this is your hand now,' she tells him. "Roland would have never touched me like that." Connor smiles, and Risa takes a moment to look down at the shark on his wrist. It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No- the soul of a man.
— Neal Shusterman, Unwind
There is always a way out, as there is a way in
— Bernard Kelvin Clive, Your Dreams Will Not Die
I will do all things to please the Lord,for he is my inner strength. He gives and I recieve,though I should give my all like he did for me
— Marcelo López
When will the others come?"And there is one who will never come. At least we will not see him if he does. But, oh, when I think he will be there--when our Canadian soldiers return there will be a shadow army with them--the army of the fallen. We will not *see* them--but they will be there!
— L.M. Montgomery, Rilla of Ingleside
We are horse folk, and that means more than we think it does.
— Elizabeth Carlton, The Royal Rogue
She wasn't happy, exactly; she was still too raw for that. But she was satisfied. Satisfied and relieved, too, with maybe just a bit of joy thrown in for good measure. Yes, that was it. She'd made it through so much already. She knew now that she was strong. She'd survive. And she had friends and family to support her.
— Susan Elia MacNeal, Mr. Churchill's Secretary
I do not have results ... I have an impossible task !!
— Hesham Nebr
Don't retire, rewire and refire
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
That was how she felt. Like a petal clinging to its stem, hopeful of staying, fearful of being cast away.
— Amanda Tero, Befriending the Beast
Lately, I've been leaning towards kindness.- Camille Preaker
— Gillian Flynn, Sharp Objects
When your world gets stripped down to nothing you may feel empty and naked—but this is when your space can be filled with what is new and maybe even upgraded." Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
You were my single greatest adventure.
— Carrie Hope Fletcher, On the Other Side
No, I won't be hopeless. I am full of hope. I'm a HopeFUL. ~ Evie Snow
— Carrie Hope Fletcher, On the Other Side
Hope keeps dreams alive through the prayers of those who never give up. They are able to pursue their dreams with confidence and reach their goals.“For every one that asks receives, and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks, it shall be opened.” Matthew 7:8 words of Jesus Christ
— Ellen Jean Barrier
Life could begin all over again if you were lucky enough, and I had decided to be lucky.
— Louisa  Reid, Black Heart Blue
Always have Hope, for without Hope there is no surprise.
— Carlo Capomazza
...the single ingredient in American literature that distinguishes it from other literatures of the world is a kind of giddy, illogical hopefulness. It is quite technically sophisticated while remaining ideologically naïve.
— John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire
They all had defining color running through their gray existence.
— Jessica M. Collette, Naming The Bits Between
I just want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
I never told anyone this before but my Layla is my rain.
— Randolph Randy Camp, ...Then The Rain
Our greatest hope does not rest in the death of suffering. Neither does our help lie in us having a full and perfect life, with no pain, no brokenness, and no Lyme disease. Instead our hope lies in God and we hope in the fact that this is our temporary home and our forever home with Him in Heaven is perfect. This hope- this beautiful and living hope (I Peter 1:3-4) is for the future but also gives us hope for our present days.
— Rebecca VanDeMark, Path of Hope: Daily Reflections on Hope from the Psalms for the Lyme Disease Journey
All everyone is trying to do is create a better life for the human race. Why can't everyone stop fighting and start working together to accomplish that?
— L.T. Gibbons, Project Ark
We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right." (pg. 481)
— Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts
You can choose to stay strong and keep moving on or you can run, and in the end still make a U-turn..
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Feeling hopeless? But are you even there yet?
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Hope is the breath that keep your dreams alive. Don’t stop breathing!.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Hopelessness makes you a futile wanderer. Hope makes your life a wonder
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Hopelessness is endless, the more you search for it, the more you find it
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
When you decide to face your life squarely, you stop moving round in circles.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Hopelessness is only a puzzle, and your task is to find hope
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
To hope is a long run but hopelessness is wrongdoing to your soul.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Even in times of famine, we have more than enough to eat.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I go to de One who says silver n gold is Mine
— Kingsley ofosu-Ampong
One can (not) learn from a fatal error.
— Raajesh Pillai
And I will never again underestimate the power of anticipation. There is no better boost in the present than an invitation into the future.
— Caroline Kepnes, You
Life is figure out what you hope for, live inside that hope, but live right in it,under its roof
— irak.ibrahim hussain didi
Life is more Easy with a Little Hope and Big Dreams.
— Jan Jansen
We must look hopeful.
— Jerome Lawrence, Inherit the Wind
Hope is a fertile soil where flowers blossoms.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of  Success: Passion Driven Life
Hope is confidence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I have started to dislike you because I don’t want to make you my weakness and it can obstructed my destination
— Avinash Advani
Evening's soft solitude Surrounds the dayEmitting precious peace.
— Deborah D. Johnson, Finding Me...Again?
He had carte blanche to eat whatever he wanted. No amount of broccoli and vitamin D kills ten lung tumors and I know not how many brain tumors. Have the tiramisu.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You
Most of us don't win instantly.Instant wins usually don't last.Real wins come slow.Real wins don't come easy,But they do come.And when we win,It is extraordinary!
— Deborah D. Johnson, Found: Poetry and Prose for Those Who Love Life and Flowers
no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth
—  but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.
For a minute there, I thought I stood a chance. But I guess in the end, Mitchell will still be the lucky one.
— Piper Shelly, Play With Me
In a spirit of hope and new beginnings, we linked arms like a couple of kids. Pushing aside sad thoughts, we strode off into our future.
— A.B. Shepherd, Lifeboat
Find a victory in every defeat to remain hopeful and find a defeat in every victory to remain humble.
— Orrin Woodward
You can't be born again, but you can change.
— Natsuki Takaya
It wasn't my intention to love you that much. I did everything to show how much I care for you. But I guess, you didn't love me as much as I did. Even how hard I tried to hold you but you let me go. Urgh! That was painful. I still wait for you even it takes years.
— Aser Alas Jr.
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories. Literacy is a platform for democratization, and a vehicle for the promotion of cultural and national identity. Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition. For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.
— Kofi Annan
If the prisoner is beaten, it is an arrogant expression of fear.
— غسان كنفاني, All That's Left to You: A Novella and Short Stories
Rights are either God-given as part of the divine plan, or they are granted by government as part of the political plan. If we accept the premise that human rights are granted by government, then we must be willing to accept the corollary that they can be denied by government.
— Ezra Taft Benson, The Constitution: A Heavenly Banner
To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal rights movement is a part of, not opposed to, the human rights movement. Attempts to dismiss it as anti human are mere rhetoric.
— Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights
You can't have occupation and human rights.
— Christopher Hitchens
One cannot fail to notice the inconsistency of those rejecting human rights: their rejection takes place in the public square created by human rights. It is difficult to reject human rights without using them.
— Filip Spagnoli, Making Human Rights Real
We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better.
— George F. Kennan
Turn the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university
— Khalil Osiris
Dieting was cruel; it was an abuse of human rights. Yes, that's what it was, and she should not allow herself to be manipulated in this way. She stopped herself. Thinking like that was nothing more than coming up with excuses for breaking the diet. Mma Ramotswe was made of sterner stuff than that, and so she persisted.
— Alexander McCall Smith, Blue Shoes and Happiness
Health is a human necessity
—  health is a human right
At a lunchtime reception for the diplomatic corps in Washington, given the day before the inauguration of Barack Obama as president, I was approached by a good-looking man who extended his hand. 'We once met many years ago,' he said. 'And you knew and befriended my father.' My mind emptied, as so often happens on such occasions. I had to inform him that he had the advantage of me. 'My name is Hector Timerman. I am the ambassador of Argen
— Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Human Rights directs my path"~ ~ Minnie Estelle Miller 2011
— Minnie Estelle Miller
With "gay marriage," the last shreds of meaning will be stripped away from marriage, with homosexuals finishing what faithless, selfish heterosexuals have begun.
— Orson Scott Card
THE DECLARATION of the Rights of Man at the end of the eighteenth century was a turning point in history. It meant nothing more nor less than that from then on Man, and not God's command or the customs of history, should be the source of Law. Independent of the privileges which history had bestowed upon certain strata of society or certain nations, the declaration indicated man's emancipation from all tutelage and announced that he had now come of age.Beyond this, there was another implication of which the framers of the declaration were only half aware. The proclamation of human rights was also meant to be a much-needed protection in the new era where individuals were no longer secure in the estates to which they were born or sure of their equality before God as Christians. In other words, in the new secularized and emancipated society, men were no longer sure of these social and human rights which until then had been outside the political order and guaranteed not by government and constitution, but by social, spiritual, and religious forces. Therefore throughout the nineteenth century, the consensus of opinion was that human rights had to be invoked whenever individuals needed protection against the new sovereignty of the state and the new arbitrariness of society.
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
There are no rogue ships
—  there are only rogue shipowners.
Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.
— DaShanne Stokes
Stay awake. Spread awareness. Take action.
— Eileen Anglin
Sadly, it is within the religious domain that the phenomenon of rhetorical hysteria takes its most devastating form. I am aware that, in some minds, this tends to be regarded as a delicate subject. Let me declare very simply that I do not share such a sentiment. There is nothing in the least delicate about the slaughter of innocents. We all subscribe to the lofty notions contained in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights but, for some reason, become suddenly coy and selective when it comes to defending what is obviously the most elementary of these rights, which is the right to life. One of my all-time favourite lines comes from the black American poet Langston Hughes. It reads, simply, 'There is no lavender word for lynch'.
— Wole Soyinka, Climate of Fear: The Quest for Dignity in a Dehumanized World
Human rights protection laws typically come under attack from those who made these laws necessary to begin with.
— Christina Engela, Fearotica: An Anthology of Erotic Horror
Unbelievably, while many non-governmental organizations like Amnesty International and America’s Watch have denounced the human rights situation in Cuba, there has been a continuing love affair on the part of the media and many intellectuals with Fidel Castro.
— Armando Valladares, Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag
No voting on who gets to be people.
— N.K. Jemisin
Those who object to human rights protection laws typically do so because they want to be above those laws.
— Christina Engela, For Love of Leelah
Calling the earth activists, lightworkers, spiritual warriors. Stay awake. Take action. Spread awareness.
— Eileen Anglin
Self defense is the inherent right of an individual to repel any unwarranted attack. Governments are not individuals and should not have the power to restrict or invalidate a person's ability to defend him/herself.
— GunFreeZone.net
Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.
— Yuri Kochiyama
The only way to stop big data from becoming big brother is introduce privacy laws that protect the basic human rights online.
— Arzak Khan
The Constitution only guarantees the Nigerian people the human rights either in their preamble or substantive provisions in the country.
— Saminu Kanti
rights are honored only in the breach. most people don't get agents or cops assigned to them until they're already raped or dead.
— Patricia Cornwell, From Potter's Field
How then can the US society come to terms with its past? How can it acknowledge responsibility? The late Native historian Jack Forbes always stressed that while living persons are not responsible for what their ancestors did, they are responsible for the society they live in, which is a product of that past. Assuming this responsibility provides a means of survival and liberation. Everyone and everything in the world is affected, for the most part negatively, by US dominance and intervention, often violently through direct military means or through proxies.
— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Today we are less likely to speak of humanitarianism, with its overtones of paternalistic generosity, and more likely to speak of human rights. The basic freedoms in life are not seen as gifts to be doled out by benevolent well-wishers, but as Casement said at his trial, as those rights to which all human beings are entitled from birth. It is this spirit which underlies organizations like Amnesty International, with its belief that putting someone in prison solely for his or her opinion is a crime, whether it happens in China or Turkey or Argentina and Medecins Sans Frontieres, with its belief that a sick child is entitled to medical care, whether in Rwanda or Honduras or the South Bronx.
— Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost
Ponzi schemes don’t trickle down, they siphon up.
— Heather  Marsh, Binding Chaos
We’re currently faced with two entirely different challenges – facing down Islamism and jihadism on the one hand, and advancing human rights and democratic culture on the other.
— Maajid Nawaz, Islam and the Future of Tolerance: A Dialogue
A voteless people is a hopeless people.
— Amelia Boynton Robinson
Americans care more about the rights of animals than about what happens to us!
— Joe Sacco, Palestine
More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already driven themselves to be remarkably tenacious and resilient.
— Thomas King
Every attempt through history to limit the definition of humanity has been a prelude to the subjugation, degradation, and slaughter of innocents.
— Ramez Naam, Nexus
Whoever coined the phrase '"I can work well under pressure" should be put on trial for crimes against Humanity.
— Adriano Bulla, The Road to London
You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.
— Harmon Okinyo
The simple truth is that every human being should be born with basic human rights without suffering from discrimination.
— Leta B., Your Steady Soul: May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.
Human Rights calls for responsible behavior on the part of every individual being, and the society at large. As entwined portion of rights, duties follow, thereby it calls for performance of duties such as practicing nonviolence, solving conflicts with a dialogue, respect for the other individual or a nation, respect for human rights of other individuals etc
The irony of the present day is, the more human rights jurisprudence seems to be fortified, the more there are human rights violations in newer and newer forms and some recidivism all due to the conflicting deductions of protecting even human rights of offenders. No doubts offenders deserve their rights to be protected but in cases of serious offenses such as ‘rape’ where the offender consciously commits the act while being aware of the justice system in his particular country, prefers to cross the precincts of the law. Worst still, is increasing crime rate of offenses such as rape committed against children and infants.
— Henrietta Newton Martin
Do the words 'human rights' even exist in this country anymore?
— Mamoru Oshii, Seraphim: 266613336 Wings
Thus there is a need for analogical process of deduction of laws and rules in the decision making process by the UN at this juncture, where the world is facing innumerable human rights violation (reported and unreported) pretermitting antithetical implementation of what each nation or any disputing party understands, in its own misinterpreted version of international laws. There is a need for world comity.
— Henrietta Newton Martin, INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW - A PRIMER- Print edition
..Thus it can be said that ‘Human Rights’ is an ever expanding subject, which grows in leaps and bounds with the evolution of knowledge, development of the society and the advancement of the world at large, thereby encompassing within its ambit newer forms of right/s as and when recognized as an inalienable ‘right’ , along with wrapped-in duties; duties, on the part of the state, the government, the human rights organizations on one hand, and duties incumbent on individuals as responsible beings owing their allegiance to the society, the society itself , and the world at large on the other...
— Henrietta Newton Martin
It must be instilled in man that ‘peace’ is the best legacy we would leave behind for the generations to come, as we practice and follow the edicts of human rights.
— Henrietta Newton Martin, INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW - A PRIMER First Edition 2015
The irony of the present day is, that, the more human rights jurisprudence seems to be fortified, the more there are human rights violations in newer and newer forms and some recidivism all due to the conflicting deductions of protecting even human rights of offenders. No doubt offenders deserve their rights to be protected, but in cases of serious offenses such as ‘rape’ where the offence is proved beyond all reasonable doubt against the offender and where the offender consciously commits the act while being aware of the justice system in his particular country and prefers to cross the precincts of the law, the question of a lighter punishment vis-a vis the gravity of the offence is a big question.
— Henrietta Newton Martin
There is no Zionism except the rescue of Jews.
— Golda Meir
I have frequently thought to myself, 'If I can teach my daughter one thing, it will be the love of self unconditionally.' Unconditional love and peace are obtainable, but they are only obtainable if I can learn to move beyond the conditions that I placed on my life. When conditions are placed on my life and on the lives of others, they ensure that I will never experience the depths of love and happiness.
— Asa Don Brown
To disrespect a person made in the image and likeness of God is a lot worse than desecrating a flag. We should be offended and repulsed in the same way when God's image bearers are desecrated – abused, beaten, neglected, discriminated against, and not loved and taken care of as they should be.
— James MacDonald, Christ-Centered Biblical Counseling: Changing Lives with God's Changeless Truth
May you have the courage to choose love over hate.
— Leta B., Your Steady Soul: May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.
If a rare golden heart is sacrificed in the process of trying to research or help many, then the world loses.
— Leta B., Your Steady Soul: May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.
Until we align our minds with our souls,we will continue to grieve for our highest selves as individuals, a society, and as a world family.
— Leta B., Your Steady Soul: May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.
Prejudice is poison in the veins of the world.
— Leta B., Your Steady Soul: May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.
The character of society coincides with how we treat our most vulnerable members of society.
— Leta B., Your Steady Soul: May you transform your pain, anger, and hurt into wisdom, kindness, and love.
Every precious human being born should have the right to live, love, and maximize his or her potential without suffering from discrimination.
— Leta B.
To every person who has never experienced genuine love and kindness, may you still have the strength to find the love and light that exists within your soul to give, thrive, and shine.
— Leta B.
I continue to be surprised by judgmental native stereotypes and apathy, but if I wasn't that would mean I'd become accustomed and tolerant. I don't want to stop being surprised. I just want them to stop.
— Red Haircrow
First of all, they came to take the gypsiesand I was happy because they pilfered.Then they came to take the Jews and I said nothing, because they were unpleasant to me.Then they came to take homosexuals,and I was relieved, because they were annoying me.Then they came to take the Communists,and I said nothing because I was not a Communist.One day they came to take me,and there was nobody left to protest.Bertold Brecht, inspired by Emil Gustav Friedrich Martin Niemöller
— Bertolt Brecht
Can we get control of an individual to the point where he will do our bidding against his will and even against fundamental laws of nature such as self preservation? (CIA Document, Project ARTICHOKE, MORI ID 144686, 1952)As cited by Dr Ellen P. Lacter, p57
— Orit Badouk Epstein, Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: The Manipulation of Attachment Needs
The concept of maximum promotion of human rights to the expense of the majority of people in fact undermines the entire concept of the human community.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
We can be of many nations, but earth is our land.We can be of many races, but we are just one clan.
— Ricardo Derose
We wanted a labour force, but human beings came.
— Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim
Every child born in the world must be considered as deriving its existence from God. The world is this new to him as it was to the first that existed, and his natural right in it is of the same kind.
— Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
A human rights activist is the worst type of person to mess with. If I can choose an enemy between the worst finance CEO, or the worst human rights violating dictator, and a human rights activist, I would choose the former. A human rights activist doesn't let go; doesn't have a peace of mind till responsibility for a wrongful act is finally reached. That's the uncomfortable type of person that cannot stand injustice, the type of person that doesn't fear "social desirability" sanctions for confronting wrongdoers directly, upsetting the silence and the status quo, and for screaming loud. That's the person that dares to stand up -- for themselves, for others. That's the type of person who doesn't lay low, doesn't fear being perceived as uncomfortable, the type of person that doesn't just "go along". I do not want as an enemy a person who cannot let go and forget injustice, but who instead will plug away till the very end, till justice is reached. I do not want that man or woman as an enemy.
— Iveta Cherneva
Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human rights. It is the argument of tyrants
—  it is the creed of slaves.
Often, then, the stories came pouring out, and often they were set before us slowly and quietly like tea. These slow stories were told with understatement that made my eyes and voice fill as I translated; for when people seem to have no emotion remaining for such stories, your own heart must supply it.
— Daoud Hari, The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.
— Thomas Jefferson
The question, he (Lincoln) said over and over, is not what a man's particular abilities may be, but what his rights are as a human being made in God's image.
— Elton Trueblood, Abraham Lincoln: Lessons in Spiritual Leadership
The massive heart wrenching barbaric violations and battles among the international states or even the Big Powers, megalomania ,‘ folie de grandeur’,and even the UN Peace keeping forces lead us only to understand of the meager contribution to the subject of IHL
— Henrietta Newton Martin, Rudiments of International Humanitarian Law
Human rights
—  they are in the hands of mankind and nowhere else.
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
— Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken for granted.
— Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
Always in your stomach and in your skin there was a sort of protest, a feeling that you had been cheated of something you had a right to.
— George Orwell
You cannot stand for civil rights + not support gay marriage. You cannot stand for human rights + not support gay marriage. It's that simple.Everywhere, the voice of the oppressed must echo + ring out or else it will be crushed by the tyranny of wickedness.
— Bernard Schaffer
By contrast, if one conceives the idea of human rights as centring on the notion that each individual is completely autonomous and should have entire control over its own fate, this seems to me unrealistic even for human beings, and far too one-sided to be used as a central tool of morality.
— Mary Midgley, The Myths We Live by
Never think I'm worried about losing sales by speaking out for human rights + gun control. I'd rather be broke than corrupt.
— Bernard Schaffer
Freedom rings bells to wake us from the comfort of beautiful dreams and empower the efforts that turn them into reality.
— Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
True unalienable rights do not require one to trample other unalienable rights.
— J.S.B. Morse, Gods of Ruin: A Political Thriller
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
— Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
Two principles have stood face-to-face from the beginning of time
—  and they will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.
We must dilute and disperse all forms of concentrated power that refuse to be accountable to majority wishes.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Sexual rights are not only a basic element of human rights but should have an integral part in moves towards Arab reform ...
— Brian Whitaker, Unspeakable Love: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East
Ah, my dear friend Hassim, seems our paths cross once again, how fortunate for this humble Sheik.” As Abdullah spoke in his usual self deprecating manner I realized that a favor was on the tip of his tongue and that I was about to be offered a quid-pro-quo.We were sitting crossed legged on large fat pillows with gold fringe. The tent was large with partitions dividing living, sleeping and cooking space. It was made from heavy cotton canvas erected on thick poles in the center giving the structure a peaked circus tent appearance. The women serving us were young, wearing harem pants low on their hips with cropped gauze tops made from sheer silk. Their exposed midriffs were flat and toned, their belly buttons were decorated in precious stones that glittered in the torch light as they moved. They were bare footed with stacks of gold ankle bracelets making the only sound we heard as they kept our glasses filled with fresh sweet tea and our communal serving trays piled high with dates and sugar incrusted sweets of undetermined origin.Abdullah took no notice of these women, his nonchalance intrigued me as I was obviously having trouble keeping my mind focused on the discussion at hand, this was all part of the Arab way, when it came to negotiation they had no peers.“So my dear friend, tell me, the region is on fire is there a solution?”I spoke in a deliberate and flat tone, little emotion just concern, one friend to another.“We were shocked by the American response in Egypt and Libya, never had we seen them move so fast with such efficiency. The fall of Gadaffi was unexpected and Mubarak’s fate stunned us; he had been a staunch supporter of the US in this region we fully expected the Obama administration to prop him up one more time, as they had done so many times in the past.”I looked carefully at Abdullah,
— Nick Hahn
Why should the spread of ideas and people result in reforms that lower violence? There are several pathways. The most obvious is a debunking of ignorance and superstition. A connected and educated populace, at least in aggregate and over the long run, is bound to be disabused of poisonous beliefs, such as that members of other races and ethnicities are innately avaricious or perfidious; that economic and military misfortunes are caused by the treachery of ethnic minorities; that women don't mind to be raped; that children must be beaten to be socialized; that people choose to be homosexual as part of a morally degenerate lifestyle; that animals are incapable of feeling pain. The recent debunking of beliefs that invite or tolerate violence call to mind Voltaire's quip that those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
— Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right -- it is the very opposite. It is a deep wound in society.
— Pope Benedict XVI