Emily Saliers Quotes

Hope is like a path in the countryside. Originally, there is nothing - but as people walk this way again and again, a path appears.

People like us we gotta stick together Keep your head up nothing lasts forever.

I don’t feel that this is unfair. That’s the thing about cancer. I’m not the only one, it happens all the time to people. I’m not special. This just intensifies what I did. It gives it more meaning. It’ll inspire more people. I just wish people would realize that anything’s possible if you try; dreams are made possible if you try

You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

Hope is a contraband passed from hand to hand and story to story.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have.

A revolution is not a painless march to the gates of freedom and justice. It is a struggle between rage and hope, between the temptation to destroy and the desire to build.

I hope that we when we stand up to those who oppress our communities that Allah accepts from us that as a form of jihad.

. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.

You can see that in people around the world who struggle to survive with little or nothing. Whether they've been inspired by faith or by loving relationships, or whether it's just something innate that gives them that ability to shine and inspire others.

All the women in Pakistan working for change, don't give up on your dreams, this is for you.

And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which the battle is won and the need to continue the struggle over with. After all, even when you succeed in obtaining a measure of justice, you're always forced to mobilize to defend that which you've won. There is no looming vacation. But there is redemption in struggle.

I am not the champion of lost causes, but the champion of causes not yet won.

I just want to inspire all those people who gave up and said 'I quit,' Never give up!

A dream dirty and bruised is better than no dream at all.

And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea: we are the ones we have been waiting for.

I can remember when I first got to los Angeles . I didn't have a car, I didn't have any money. I was walking the streets, you know, trying to get from place to place on foot almost. Sometimes, you know, you say, how am I ever going to get from here to there? There are a lot of people still having that dream and not being able to get there. So you never know. The idea is to keep on tap dancing, though.

Never let discouraging people and discouraging situations talk you out of your dream.

Intuitively we all like to seek the things that are comfortable rather than uncomfortable. But I do think there is a way of saying that if I believe in justice and I believe that justice is a constant struggle, and if I want to create justice, then I have to get comfortable with struggle.

So even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

Alive or dead, the truth won't rest. Rise up while you can.

In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.