Septima Clark Quotes

#1. [Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].

Marian Wright Edelman

#2. I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.

Septima Poinsette Clark

#3. The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.

Septima Poinsette Clark

#4. My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.

Septima Poinsette Clark

#5. The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

Siegbert Tarrasch

#6. When you meet women, don't pretend to be anything that you're not.

Ralph Fiennes

#7. People believe only what they want to believe.

Gayle Forman

#8. If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#9. What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days

Septima Poinsette Clark

#10. The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.

Septima Poinsette Clark

#11. I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion, keep you from eating, which I liked to do.

Septima Poinsette Clark

#12. Always it is easier to pay homage to prophets than to heed the direction of their vision.

Clinton Lee Scott

#13. Every inch of ground we refuse to take with God, we surrender to the enemy.

Beth Moore

#14. Change is a road less traveled, but a remarkable journey to take.

Dr. Milan LaBrey

#15. I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

Septima Poinsette Clark

#16. mushroom pie stuffed with spinach, thyme, and currants.

Christopher Paolini

#17. The problem for me with liberals is that we've abdicated our moral responsibility to the universe.

Sherman Alexie

#18. I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

Septima Poinsette Clark