James Birney Abolitionist Quotes & Sayings

Hallelujah! Amen! Christianity is so inherent in western story-telling, you can't really get around it. But it wasn't something that drew me to it more or less. — Keanu Reeves

I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me. — Mick Farren

I think most writers have to have a practice of writing. For me it is very early in the morning. I try to make it a separate world from the rest of my life. — Dana Spiotta

People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory and fragmented manner. — Judith Lewis Herman

Whatever I am today is a product of that conviction that victory through Christ is victory indeed. The rest is history. — T. B. Joshua

I don't believe, however, that every fiction we orchestrate is good. I cling to those that are painful, those that arise from a profound crisis of all our illusions. I love unreal things when they show signs of firsthand knowledge of the terror, and hence an awareness that they are unreal, that they will not hold up for long against the collisions. Human beings are extremely violent animals, and the violence they are always ready to use in order to impose their own eternal, salvific life vest, while shattering those of others, is frightening. — Elena Ferrante

I am, in the end, what you made me. — Cassandra Clare

Nature is well-spring of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders. — James Hansen