Remy Bressant Quotes & Sayings

Empowerment requires a major shift in attitude. The most crucial place that this shift must occur is in the heart of every leader. — Kenneth H. Blanchard

When I consider my ministry, I think of the world. Anything less than that would not be worthy of Christ, nor of his will for my life, — Henrietta Mears

In Berkeley and San Francisco, the revolution didn't seem to far away. A lot of white radicals, hippies, Chicanos, Blacks, and Asians were ready to get down. But i hadn't forgotten the hard hats and the red necks and the bible belt and the so called middle amerikans who had elected Nixon. I couldn't imagine how the "new left" was talking to those people, much less organizing and changing their minds. I decided the only way i would come up with answers was to on keep studying and struggling. I didn't know how half of what i was studying would fit in but i figured it would all come in handy some day. I read about guerrilla warfare and clandestine struggle without having the faintest idea that one day i would go underground. It's kind of funny when i think about it because reading that stuff had probably saved my life a million times. — Assata Shakur

The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry. — Napoleon Bonaparte

People are more productive when they're alone, but they're more collaborative and innovative when they're together. — Marissa Mayer

Ellis squatted down next to her and put his hand gently on her shoulder. "Clairey ... " Her name sounded strange on his lips for the first time. — Tracy Winegar

Art does not die because there is no more art. It dies because there is too much. — Jean Baudrillard

Pacifists are reluctant to remember this, but early on the ancient Greeks invented democracy as a continuation of war by other means. The assembly practice on the scale of the citystate came directly from the assembly of warriors. Equality of speech stemmed from equality in the face of death. Athenian democracy was a hoplitic democracy. One was a citizen because one was a soldier - hence the exclusion of women and slaves. In a culture as violently agonistic as classical Greek culture, debate itself was understood as a moment of warlike confrontation, between citizens this time, in the sphere of speech, with the arms of persuasion.Moreover, "agon" signifies "assembly" as much as "competition. " The complete Greek citizen was one who was victorious both with arms and with discourse. — Anonymous

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government. — Tim Murphy

Less is more, in prose as in architecture. — Donald Hall

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it? — Randall Jarrell