Anne Sullivan Quotes

As hope kindles hope, millions more will find it. By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well - a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world.

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.

A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Something is stirring in the hearts and minds of the people.

There's so much power in seeing the possibility of change.

It's possible to watch 'Gone Girl' and feel that you have seen something terribly bleak. But it's also possible to receive it as good news. Any powerful articulation of the need for change is also a testimony to the possibility of change.

We are free to change the world and start something new in it.

Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.