Doris "Granny D" Haddock famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Never be discouraged from being an activist because people tell you that you'll not succeed. You have already succeeded if you're out there representing truth or justice or compassion or fairness or love.
-- Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#Truth #Compassion #People
Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.
-- Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#Life And Love #Kindness #Self
Small towns make up for their lack of people by having everyone be more interesting.
-- Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#People #Interesting #Towns
Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do.
-- Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#Democracy
There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.
-- Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#Fear #Two #World
Just as an unbalanced mind can accumulate stresses that can grow and take on a life of their own, so little decisions of our modern life can accumulate to the point where our society finds itself bombing other people for their oil, or supporting dictators who torture whole populations - all so that our unbalanced interests might be served.
-- Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#Stress #Oil #People
If we Americans are split into two meaningful camps, it is not conservative versus liberal. The two camps are the politically awake and the hypnotized.
-- Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#Meaningful #Two #Splits
Courage is freedom, and freedom is joy. Be fully who you are, letting the world get used to you - it will! Find a loving community of friends who support your ever-flowering growth, which is a lifetime proposition.
-- Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#Support #Community #Joy
We have a duty to look after each other. If we lose control of our government, then we lose our ability to dispense justice and human kindness. Our first priority today, then, is to defeat utterly those forces of greed and corruption that have come between us and our self-governance.
-- Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#Kindness #Government #Self
Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks, special subsidies and special regulations? That money would be available for health and education and building bridges.
-- Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#Bridges #People #Special
I'm not against the corporations. They are our wealth. But they are getting too greedy. I don't want to do away with corporations. I want them to make our cars, however, not our laws.
-- Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#Law #Car #Want
Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.
-- Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#Money #Fighting #Men

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