Eugene Puryear famous quotes

I think, by and large, the way big social change happens is every individual person taking on whatever little piece they can take on.
-- Eugene Puryear

#Thinking #Pieces #Littles

Usually, being a volunteer organizer essentially means that I am part of a core base of individuals, that when we start a project - whether it be a big thing like the inauguration or whether it be something that's a longer-term, let's say, educational campaign about a foreign policy issue or a domestic issue - we sit together and we divvy up, and oftentimes it's relevant to different things we do.
-- Eugene Puryear

#Educational #Mean #Issues

I think what drives me is a sense of, well, who is going to do it if you don't do it? I think that one of the things that we've seen over time, especially with progressive social movements, is most of them - it's surprising to people - are sort of driven by that.
-- Eugene Puryear

#Thinking #People #Movement

I got involved as an activist when I was in high school, around the Iraq war. That's how I got involved. It seemed like, OK, we're going to go to war. It doesn't seem like a good idea. Someone should do something. I'm looking around and, like, I am someone, and I might not be able to do everything, but I can do something.
-- Eugene Puryear

#War #School #Ideas

An hour to one person might be way more than like a week to somebody else.
-- Eugene Puryear

#Might #Way #Week

I think one of the great things that I have seen happen since the rise of the movement for black lives is the growth of more training and leadership spaces.
-- Eugene Puryear

#Thinking #Space #Growth

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.'

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

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.

Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

Who is your opponent tonight, tonight I am playing against the Black pieces

I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud.

Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,

I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.