Domitila Barrios Quotes & Sayings

Often the depths of human misery can be found amongst legions of happy people. — Russ Woody

I guess sometimes the past just catches up to you, whether you want it to or not. — Dabbs Greer

We are God's holy people. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We need a bold, new, positive vision for the future of our country. — Theresa May

Good fortune is created/written/made. — Erica Goros

...it was the very government and the way they treated us that started us on that road. For example, in my case, when they beat me in the DIC cells for being a "communist" and an "extremist" and all that, they awoke a great curiosity in me: "What is communism? What is socialism?" Every day they beat me over the head with that. And I began to ask myself: "What's a socialist country? How are problems solved there? How do people live there? Are the miners massacred there?" And then I began to analyze: "What have I done? What do I want? What do I think? Why am I here? I only asked for justice for the people, I only asked for education to be better, I asked that there be no more massacres like the terrible San Juan massacre. Is that socialism? Is that communism? — Domitila Barrios De Chungara

Today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with the blind hope that this obscure force that for so many years had raised him above the daily routine, nourished him unstintingly, and been equal to the most difficult circumstances
that, as it had with endless generosity given him reason to live, it would also give him reason to grow old and die without rebellion. — Albert Camus

It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one. — Zig Ziglar

Even the hash brown section of the Waffle House menu reads like a serial killer-to-do list: Smothered, covered,diced, and scattered. — Jim Gaffigan

Never make a personnel judgment the first time it comes up. — Alfred P. Sloan

I think you have to [vote] and the reason you have to go vote is an important one, and that is because the day you vote is the day that you will feel the most ineffectual you will feel all year. — Lewis Black

Sometimes I think, 'Why should I care about doing well in New Zealand?' — Paul Cleave

The dominant knowledge system tends to embrace an anti-pluralism, a lack of receptiveness to alternative epistemologies, to other ways of knowing the world. — Laurelyn Whitt

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school. — Sara Blakely

It's great to have the freedom to enjoy your work and not feel like you're leaving your other life behind. — Anna Paquin