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BELIEF
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to
belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction,
things begin to happen.
-- Muhammad
Ali
"Your
assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them
off every once in a while, or the light won't come
in."
-- Isaac
Asimov
*
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of
being in harmony with all that surrounds us. It is
a belief that all humankind are related to each other.
Each has a purpose, spirit and sacredness. It is an
understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that
we will follow these ways. And in this understanding
we believe we are related to all other living species...
-- Dennis
Banks
We
are more connected than ever before, more able to
spread our ideas and beliefs, our anger and fears.
As we exercise the right to advocate our views,
and as we animate our supporters, we must all assume
responsibility for our words and actions before
they enter a vast echo chamber and reach those both
serious and delirious, connected and unhinged.
~ Bill
Clinton
The
belief that all genuine education comes about through
experience does not mean that all experiences are
genuinely or equally educative.
-- John
Dewey
“Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.” -- W. E. B. Du Bois
The
Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be
sure of that. A person will worship something, have
no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid
in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but
it will out. That which dominates our imaginations
and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our
character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful
what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are
becoming.
~ Ralph
Waldo Emerson
Faith
is much better than belief. Belief is when someone
else does the thinking.
--
R.
Buckminster Fuller
Constant
development is the law of life, and a man who always
tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear
consistent drives himself into a false position.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
Constant
development is the law of life, and a man who always
tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent
drives himself into a false position.
-- Mohandas
K. Gandhi
"I
just have this absolute belief that humans are moving
away from cruelty and destruction towards a time
when we can truly live in harmony with nature. When
we understand that there is a spiritual power around
us from which we can draw strength. That is where
I believe human destiny ultimately is taking us.
I just hope we have time."
~ Jane
Goodall
"I
never had come up with a really profound and strong
gesture -- nothing like Julia Butterfly's. So I
figured the best thing I could do was live by my
beliefs. That's probably the most profound thing
that anybody can do."
-- Daryl
Hannah
And
I know that the younger generation is doing things
that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter
of a political belief or an environmental stance.
It's really just common sense.
-- Daryl
Hannah
Common sense dictates that we evaluate our beliefs
on the basis of how they affect us. If they make us
more loving, creative, and wise, they are good beliefs.
If they make us cruel, jealous, depressed and sick,
they cannot be good beliefs.
-- Barbara
Marx Hubbard
It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past
and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give
up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations
to come. I have to keep trying.
-- King
Hussein of Jordan
*
How
do we create a harmonious society out of so many
kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one
value that is indispensable in creating community.
-- Barbara
Jordan
We
must address and master the future together. It
can be done if we restore the belief that we share
a sense of national community, that we share a common
national endeavor. It can be done.
-- Barbara
Jordan
*
"Tolerance
implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs.
Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution
of others." -- John
F. Kennedy
*
It
is from the 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
...Come home to the affirmation that
we have a dream.
Come home to the conviction that we can move our
country forward.
Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer
world.
And let us be joyful in the homecoming...
--
George
McGovern
"When
we are in alignment with what we truly believe,
we can stand firm and tall and tell it like it is."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
"When
we are in alignment with what we truly believe,
we can stand firm and tall and tell it like it is."
-- Lynne
Namka (AngriesOut.com)
I
do not mean by this declaration to condemn those who
believe otherwise; they have the same right to their
belief as I have to mine. But it is necessary to the
happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to
himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing,
or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe
what he does not believe.
-- Thomas
Paine.
I do not believe in a simplistic and inflammatory
view of good and evil. I believe this is a big world
full of men, women, and children who struggle to
eat, to love, to work, to protect their families,
their beliefs, and their dreams.
-- Sean
Penn
*
“The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic
way of life is still a belief that as individuals
we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability,
serve the community in which we live..."
-- Eleanor
Roosevelt
*
"We
have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction
that there is a better life, a better world, beyond
the horizon."
-- Franklin
D. Roosevelt
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides,
a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search
for logical grounds in favour of the belief which
he finds in himself. -- Bertrand
Russell
Man
is a credulous animal, and must believe something;
in the absence of good grounds for belief, he
will be satisfied with bad ones.
-- Bertrand
Russell
What
a man believes may be ascertained not from his creed,
but from assumptions on which he habitually acts.
-- George
Bernard Shaw
Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism,
are all too frequently those who . . . ignore some
of the basic principles of Americanism—the right
to criticize, the right to hold unpopular beliefs,
the right to protest, the right of independent thought.
-- Margaret
Chase Smith
However
sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism
must start with a belief in some group's greater right
to power, whether that right is justified by sex,
race, class, religion, or all four. However far it
may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal
power and airtight roles within the family.
-- Gloria
Steinem
Loyalty
to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or
freed a human soul.
-- Mark
Twain
In
religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second-hand,
and without examination, from authorities who have
not themselves examined the questions at issue but
have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners,
whose opinions about them were not worth a brass
farthing.
-- Mark
Twain
If
we are to have the public conversations essential
to taking on serious dilemmas from climate change
to criminal justice reform, we need forums for those
conversations. The media can facilitate the conversations
or shut them down. They can open up or constrain
our beliefs about what is possible, what is desirable,
who is deserving, and which perspectives are legitimate.
-- Sarah
van Gelder
*
We
believe in taking down the barriers, but we also
believe in the most energetic reconciliation among
peoples by getting them to know each other, talk
each other's languages, understand each other's
fears and beliefs, getting to know each other physically,
philosophically, and spiritually. It is much harder
to kill your near neighbor than the thousands of
unknown and hostile aliens at the other end of a
nuclear missile. We have to create a world in which
there are no unknown, hostile aliens at the other
end of any missiles.
-- Betty
Williams (The Peace People)
I
still have great faith in democracy. I have great
belief in the power of community.
~
Terry
Tempest Williams
*
Despair
shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations
shared create collaboration, collaboration creates
community, and community inspires social change.
~
Terry
Tempest Williams
We
have to speak out now on behalf of our community
and on behalf of the land and say they're the same
thing and say "No, we are not rolling over" and
"No, this is not a corporate enterprise." This is
democracy in the fullest sense and we must have
regard and reverence and those are the cornerstones
of a just society.
~ Terry
Tempest Williams
The
thing always happens that you really believe in;
and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
-- Frank
Lloyd Wright
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