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

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 reason why we believe that change is possible is not because we are idealists but because we believe we have made it, so other people can make it as well.

Romeo Dallaire

#6. One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?

Sterling W. Sill

#7. In this life, it's not hard to do wrong.

John Boyega

#8. I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

Jet Li

#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. A fly and a flea in a flue (3 beats)
Were imprisoned, so what could they do? (3 beats)
Said the fly, "Let us flee!" (2 beats)
"Let us fly!" said the flea, (2 beats)
So they fled through a flaw in the flue. (3 beats)

Trudi Hammel Garland

#11. You find out who your true friends are not when you are on top of the world, but when the world is on top of you.

Richard M. Nixon

#12. I too hope in this short reign to be a man of peace.

Pope Benedict XVI

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Septima Poinsette Clark

#17. 24 - Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Riley Weber