Direct Action famous quotes

I honestly have never been a guy to panic or freak out in the middle of a crisis. Growing up in the south side of Chicago will make you pretty resilient.

The most powerful thing is for women not just to be the beneficiaries of the change, but to be agents of it.

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.

Though the Negroes are fed, clothed, and housed, and though the Irish peasant is starved, naked, and roofless, the bare name of freemen-the lordship over his own person, the power to choose and will-are blessings beyond food, raiment, or shelter; possessing which, the want of every comfort of life is yet more tolerable than their fullest enjoyment without them.

I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. I really like what that suggests. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.

Weak people can be very stubborn.

And what is the religion of many persons but a kind of demonism that delights in human sacrifices and causes them to look with horror on the greatest part of mankind? Plutarch, it is well known, has observed very justly that it is better not to believe in a god than to believe him to be a capricious and malevolent being.

I swear fearfully at the conventions of the stage.

In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.