Septima Poinsette Clark famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
-- Septima Poinsette Clark

#Peace #Thinking #Facts
I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.
-- Septima Poinsette Clark

#Believe #People #Needs
The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.
-- Septima Poinsette Clark

#Freedom #Air #Together
My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.
-- Septima Poinsette Clark

#Philosophy #Yellow #White
What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days
-- Septima Poinsette Clark

#Educational #Fighting #Race
I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion- keep you from eating, which I liked to do.
-- Septima Poinsette Clark

#Hurt #Digestion #Eating
I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.
-- Septima Poinsette Clark

#Littles #World #Chaos

I believe in compulsory cannibalism. If people were forced to eat what they killed, there would be no more wars.
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.
The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.

Septima Poinsette Clark famous quotes

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