Riane Eisler Quotes

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.

Only when we recognise our privilege, we will be able to make a change for others.

I was born in the 1960s. I came up in the 1970s. I know how race relations were. The thing is, I want to advance the ball and never return to those days again. I want to keep the topic going. I'm going to discuss it. And we're going to make America better. It's my job as a citizen, and I demand it.

I challenge us all to have the courage of our convictions to fight for a fair, justice and inclusive society.

We must formulate policies to allow everyone to have the same opportunities in life and fix our broken society too.

In order to really move toward what people really think of as some sort of Utopian post-racial society or somehow to really challenge the racial hierarchy, we're going to have to allow some fluidity.

The world is only as fair as you can make it. Takes a lot of fight. A lot of fight. But if you stay in here, in your little cave, that's one less fighter on the side of fair.

The struggle for freedom and justice is now.

To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!

If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights.

For centuries, the world divided human beings into two groups and then proceeded to exclude and oppress one group. It is only fair that the solution to the problem acknowledge that.

There are enormous opportunities to work for a world that is more free, peaceful and just.

A more just world is possible.

One moves swiftly and imperceptibly from a world in which affirmative action can't be ended because its beneficiaries are too weak to a world in which it can't be ended because its beneficiaries are too strong.

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their minds, with the common struggle of the common man.

There is no reason to accept the doctrines crafted to sustain power and privilege, or to believe that we are constrained by mysterious and unknown social laws.

... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

Do not wait for me to do something for your rights. It's your world and you can change it.

Someday war and poverty will be crazy and we will wonder how the world allowed such things to exist.

This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.

Our movement is of the working people, for the working people, by the working people. . . . There is not a right too long denied to which we do not aspire in order to achieve; there is not a wrong too long endured that we are not determined to abolish.

Sometimes you must live in a violent world in order to get greater justice.

Lost rights are never regained by appeals to the conscience of the usurpers, but by relentless struggle....goa ts are used for sacrificial offerings and not lions.