e. e. cummings Quotes

If you really believe in a cause, let the cause speak for itself. And if you, by your personality, are damaging that cause, if you really believe in it, you step aside.

If I saw someone in need and I did nothing, I'd be defacing my own humanity.

You have to stand up for what's right in life. Unless you do that... you're nothing.

Real courage is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. Doing the unpopular thing because it's what you believe, and the heck with everybody.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it.

Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour.

Whether it's right or wrong, fight for what you believe in.

Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. Once you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

Lord, give me the wisdom to know what's right and the courage to do what's right-even when it's hard.

I never did a right thing or abstained from a wrong one from any consideration of reward or punishment.

Right is right though all condemn, and wrong is wrong though all approve.

Sometimes being a leader isn’t about winning. Sometimes it’s about doing what’s right, instead of what’s powerful.

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

I don't care if I end up in jail or Guantánamo or whatever, kicked out of a plane with two gunshots in the face. I did what I did because I believe it is the right thing to do, and I will continue to do that.

When there's a right and wrong thing to do, choose right regardless of what your friends do.

Stand for right, even if you stand alone.

Do good to another man, even when they do not do you good; another will certainly do you good. if there is still shame and fear in one's heart to do good, there will certainly be no progress at all.

The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions of men and women with some sort of Humanist philosophy who have consciously given up their lives for a social ideal.

For me, lost causes are the only ones that are worth fighting for. The other stuff is not worth fighting for.

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

Every noble impulse, every unselfish expression of love, every surrender of self to something higher than self, every loyalty to an ideal, every fine courage of the soul – by doing good for good’s sake – that is spirituality. –