"Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go."

Al Hirschfeld

#quoteoftheday #Life #Science #BeingHuman

"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."

Blaise Pascal

#quoteoftheday #Truth #Lies #Resist #BeingHuman

“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well.”

Nikki Giovanni

#quoteoftheday DoGood #Dothework #help #BeingHuman

It's o.k. to make mistakes. 😊

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"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."

Isaac Asimov

#quoteoftheday #knowledge #ignorance #solutions #BeingHuman

"A good song reminds us what we're fighting for."

Pete Seeger

#quoteoftheday #music #Resist #BeingHuman

"If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow."

William McFee

#fate #TheGoodFight #Resist #BeingHuman

"We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world."

Howard Zinn

#Participate #Change #BabySteps #Resist #BeingHuman

"What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy."

William Butler Yeats

#quoteoftheday #Fear #Destruction #BeingHuman

"The answer is to say 'No!' to authority when authority is wrong."

Studs Terkel

#quoteoftheday #Resist #SayNo #BeingHuman

"All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent."

Ingrid Newkirk

#quoteoftheday #Resist #SpeakNow #BeingHuman

"How could I be anything but a dissenter?"

Saul Bellow

#quoteoftheday #dissent #resist #BeingHuman

"Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'."

Studs Terkel

#quoteoftheday #Heroes #Community #BeingHuman

"It is brave to be involved"

Gwendolyn Brooks

#quoteoftheday #Bravery #Courage #Resist #BeingHuman

"We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond."

Gwendolyn Brooks

#quoteoftheday #PartofEverything #Connections #BeingHuman

"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."

Marian Wright Edelman

#quoteoftheday #working #Service #BeingHuman

"Secrecy is the freedom tyrants dream of."

Bill Moyers

#quoteoftheday #Secrecy #Freedom #Tyranny #Resist #BeingHuman

"I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances."

Robert Fulghum

#quoteoftheday #Boredom #Learning #TakingChances #BeingHuman

"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good."

William Faulkner

#quoteoftheday #writingadvice #takeachance #dogood #BeingHuman

"Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself."

William Faulkner

#quoteoftheday #DoBetter #DontTryDo #BeingHuman