Redemptive Social Movement Quotes

#1. Ironically, when I've asked my straight friends to join me in hanging a rainbow flag, they answer, 'But someone might think we're gay,' not realizing that is exactly the point. To be mistaken for the oppressed is to momentarily become the oppressed.

Alice Dreger

#2. What is infinite?" she recited. I knew that text well. "The universe and the greed of men," I quoted back to her.

Leigh Bardugo

#3. What if your life depended solely on you?

Ron Wyn

#4. Nothing remains for me but to assure you in the most animated language of the violence of my affection.

Jane Austen

#5. The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.

Joe Torre

#6. She was still waiting for him to come back to her, even though he wasn't going to. She was still holding out for something that wasn't going to happen. She was good at waiting. That seemed like a sad thing to be good at.

Ann Brashares

#7. Telling the whole truth and nothing but is the ultimate taking care of yourself. I can't tell you how many clients of mine, once they clean up their lie list and resolve the big ones, cure themselves of their own depression.

Lauren Handel Zander

#8. I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

Bette Midler

#9. For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Alexandre Dumas