Dellums Quotes & Sayings

Everybody ages. Eighty-year-olds don't look like twenty-year-olds, and they shouldn't. We live in a throwaway culture that stashes older people away and tries not to look at them. — Vicki Myron

If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit. — Ron Dellums

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life ... as long as I don't buy anything. — Ed Asner

I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking. — Graham Coxon

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom. — Thomas Jefferson

Failure is not a crime. The crime is not trying. — Ron Dellums

Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you don't want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone's groceries. Chat with the custodian in your office building. Donate blood. Live in Rwanda for a year. Write letters to the Department of Buildings. Learn to knit. It is only going to get better from here on out. — Sufjan Stevens

Now, she lived with her dogs in a small house by a creek in the country, and her life had become a simple thing. — John Hart

Comedy is not supposed to be funny. Its supposed to tell the truth and then that's funny. — Paula Patton

We are reminded that anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything. — Thomas S. Monson

If Ron Dellums running for mayor gives you hope, then let's get on with it. — Ron Dellums

I want balance in my life. — Ron Dellums

I just did whatever it took to keep making music - slept on couches. You would be amazed at how far $20 can go if you stretch it out. — Daniel Powter

It's in the nature of the humans and the entire animal kingdom to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. But what makes us true humans is the power to not hit back. — Abhijit Naskar

If this were a courageous country,
it would ask Gloria to lead it
since she is sane and funny and beautiful and smart
and the National Leaders we've always had
are not.
When I listen to her talk about women's rights
children's rights
men's rights
I think of the long line of Americans
who should have been president, but weren't.
Imagine Crazy Horse as president. Sojourner Truth.
John Brown. Harriet Tubman. Black Elk or Geronimo.
Imagine President Martin Luther King confronting
the youthful "Oppie" Oppenheimer. Imagine President
Malcolm X going after the Klan. Imagine President Stevie
Wonder dealing with the "Truly Needy."
Imagine President Shirley Chisholm, Ron Dellums, or
Sweet Honey in the Rock
dealing with Anything.
It is imagining to make us weep with frustration,
as we languish under real estate dealers, killers,
and bad actors. — Alice Walker

Two late goals, both in the last twenty minutes ... — Jon Champion

I have two things going for me. The first is the fidelity to my principles, and the other is my ability to show up for the fight every day. Period that. — Ron Dellums

She'd missed the entire point and hit the bullseye. — C.D. Reiss

We want to make certain that every American who stood in silent tribute to Rosa Parks hopes that the Sepreme Court Judge will break silence and speak out clearly for the civil rights that define our unity as a nation. — Dick Durbin

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America. — Ron Dellums

I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures? — Egon Schiele

It's time for somebody to lead all of America's niggers . all the people who feel left out of the political process. — Ron Dellums

I'm still ashamed that I did not step out of that dense grass, that I did not climb those steps and grab his hand and lead him down them as an elder sister should, that I did not say: Here I am, brother. I'm here. — Jesmyn Ward

[I will] totally dismantle every intelligence agency in this country piece by piece, nail by nail, brick by brick — Ron Dellums