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“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
Source : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.277, Zed Books
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“Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?”
Source : "Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 16, 2011. 
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“A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.”
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“Don't get cocky just because you've had a good run. You can lose your business as fast as you've earned it.”
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“'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes as an appropriate metaphor for feminist mothering. Mothers, empowered, are able to better care for and protect their children”
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“I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.”
Source : Jane Bowles (2014). “My Sister's Hand in Mine: The Collected Works of Jane Bowles”, p.10, Macmillan
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“To to change misery, disease and failure into joy, health, success and prosperity, I must think, speak and act, in ways which are the exact reverse of how most people think, speak and act.”
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“My grandfather would have loved to have met you," he told her huskily. "He would have called you 'She Moves Trees Out of His Path.' " She looked lost, but his da laughed. He'd known the old man, too. "He called me 'He Who Must Run into Trees,'" Charles explained, and in a spirit of honesty, a need for his mate to know who he was, he continued, "or sometimes 'Running Eagle.' " " 'Running Eagle'?" Anna puzzled it over, frowning at him. "What's wrong with that?" "Too stupid to fly," murmured his father with a little smile.”
