Diany Rodriguez Quotes & Sayings

We cannot hope, then, in this generation, or for several generations, that the mass of the whites can be brought to assume that close sympathetic and self-sacrificing leadership of the blacks which their present situation so eloquently demands. Such leadership, such social teaching and example, must come from the blacks themselves. — W.E.B. Du Bois

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity. And that means, at its simplest, finding books that they enjoy, giving them access to those books, and letting them read them. — Neil Gaiman

It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class. — Barack Obama

And Thou shalt never, but never be a bystander. — Yehuda Bauer

Stories set the inner life into motion, and this is particularly important where the inner life is frightened, wedged, or cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out, down, or up, and for our trouble, cuts for us fine wide doors in previously blank walls, openings that lead to the dreamland, that lead to love and learning, that lead us back to our own real lives as knowing wildish women. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation. — Benjamin Spock

Vain man is apt to think we were merely intended for the world's propagation and to keep its human inhabitants sweet and clean; but, by their leaves, had we the same literature he would find our brains as fruitful as our bodies. — Hannah Woolley

A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it. — Walter Lippmann