John Owen Quotes

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.

Perhaps the most important people that I should photograph are the people who don't have a voice.

Riot is the voice of the unheard.

Local law enforcement agencies, national police authorities, and other state-operated surveillance has created a hostile environment for communities at the margins.

It shouldn't be down to charities to be the sole help for those who fall through the cracks.

My first reaction to Trump being elected was a visceral one. I cried for black people in general but, more particularly, for those of us at the margins who have been struggling and who have never received enough support.

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't sat in the corners of power.

What we were all always saying with 'The Wire' was that there's a whole group of people that America just sort of wants to throw away. They want to forget about them, and if they could, they'd get rid of them. They are Americans - they're worth saving; they're worth helping.

No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.

All you could do was take on as much weight as you can bear. And if you're lucky, there's someone close enough by to shoulder the rest.

It doesn't do any good to just be on the side of black people. The funnier comedic position is to be on the side of oppressed people in general.

Nothing is going to hurt this country - not bioweapons, not a nuclear weapon, not a terrorist strike - there is nothing that can hurt us if we stay united and move together and have a vision for moving to the future the right way.

The real question is how do you survive at the same time you pose those risks? Because you need to survive. And it seems to me that you survive in community or in solidarity, with others who are taking the risk with you.

I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people.

In the whole world no poor devil is lynched, no wretch is tortured, in whom I too am not degraded and murdered.

Mythology tells us that where you stumble, there your treasure is ... The world is a match for us, and we’re a match for the world. And where it seems most challenging lies the greatest invitation to find deeper and greater power in ourselves.

Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.

We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem. So we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools.

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

My ability to survive personal crises is really a mark of the character of my people. Individually and collectively, we must react with a tenacity that allows us again and again to bounce back from adversity.

Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.