The problem isn’t that we’re powerless.
The problem is that we have allowed those with agendas in
government and the media and organized religion to CONVINCE
us that we’re powerless. They've confused us, belittled
us, distracted us and made us feel like we barely have the
power to get out of bed in the morning, let alone challenge
those with the biggest arms, megaphones, or pulpits.
The truth is that EVERY one of us has tremendous untapped
strength, intelligence and resources hard-wired into us.
The truth -- shown by millions of examples throughout history
-- is that people can thrive in the worst imaginable circumstances.
Individuals can dig deep and get creative and think of ways
to turn things around even when all seems lost. People can
succeed against overwhelming odds if they are committed.
The human spirit is powerful, flexible, creative, intelligent
and resourceful. It is there within each of us . . . lying
dormant. Wake up your inner hero, your inner genius, your
inner leader. It is there . . . just under the surface.
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And the truth is that, when we come together to talk about
what is really happening, and what we want, and how to obtain
it, we create a very powerful dynamic and we set powerful
forces in motion.
The truth is that, together, we are unstoppable.
There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history
of social change is the history of millions of actions, small
and large, coming together at points in history and creating
a power that governments cannot suppress.
- Howard Zinn, historian
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief
that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for
an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes
out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope,
and crossing each other from a million different centers of
energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can
sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
- Robert F . Kennedy
The power of an aroused public is unbeatable.
- Dr. Helen Caldicott
Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever
he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks
becomes a light and a power.
- Henry George
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
- Bruce Lee
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on
fire.
-Ferdinand Foch
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness
has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
- Goethe
A good intention clothes itself with power.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you don't like the news, go out and make some news
of your own.
- Scoop Nisker, radio personality
But the [people], if only they could somehow become conscious
of their own strength, would have no need to conspire . .
. They need only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse
shaking off flies . . .
- George Orwell, 1984
You let one ant stand up to us - then they all might
stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us a 100 to one.
And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life.
- Hopper (a grasshopper speaking to fellow grasshoppers in
the Disney/Pixar movie A Bug's Life)
In times of danger large groups rise to the highest pitch
of enthusiasm, courage and sacrifice . . . Mankind will be
refashioned and history rewritten when this law is understood
and obeyed.
-Helen Keller
From the Pain, come the Dream
from the Dream, come the Vision
from the Vision, come the People
and from the People, come the Power
from this Power, come the Change.
- Peter Gabriel
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing
that ever has.
- Margaret Mead
We must remember that one determined person can make
a significant difference, and that a small group of determined
people can change the course of history.
-Sonia Johnson
I'm not talking about putting out your fire of righteous
anger. Keep that anger alive and channel it into defeating
the lies and bringing the bad guys to justice. We need your
righteous anger! But anger without love turns into hatred,
which weakens you. Anger plus love turns into power, effectiveness
and success.
- GW (georgewashington.blogspot.com)
What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that
it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in
that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and
are fully determined not to quit until you get it.
- Alexander Graham Bell
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which
they actually possess.
- Williams James
You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits
of a crowd seeking the surrender of your dreams, and the power
of your true vision to create and contribute. It is a fight
between those who will tell you what you cannot do, and that
part of you that knows -- and has always known -- that we
are more than our environment; and that a dream, backed by
an unrelenting will to attain it, is truly a reality with
an imminent arrival.
- Anthony Robbins
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest
fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
- Marianne Williamson
Most of us can learn to live in perfect comfort on higher
levels of power. Everyone knows that on any given day there
are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that
day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be,
we are only half awake. It is evident that our organism has
stored-up reserves of energy that are ordinarily not called
upon - deeper and deeper strata of explosible material, ready
for use by anyone who probes so deep. The human individual
usually lives far within his limits.
- William James
The people who get on in this world are the people who
get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they
can't find them, make them.
- George Bernard Shaw
In these words lies all his power: He chose the path
along which he is walking and so has no complaints.
- Paulo Coelho
