Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

I am Mother Jones. The Government can't take my life and you can't take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.

Wherever there is injustice, there is anger, and anger is like gasoline - if you spray it around and somebody lights a matchstick, you have an inferno. But anger inside an engine is powerful: it can drive us forward and can get us through dreadful moments and give us power. I learnt this with my discussions with nuclear policy makers.

Energy Is Conserved.

If you go up on a mountain and scream about change, you better make sure you're ready for people to come.

Hate is a powerful energy. If you want to do anything, resist hate. Resist it.

Our life is a combination of a certain amount of energy and a certain amount of time.

Get on your bikes and ride!

The first rule of success, and the one that supersedes all others, is to have energy. It is important to know how to concentrate it, how to husband it, how to focus it on important things instead of frittering it away on trivia.

One of the most important factors, not only in military matters but in life as a whole, is ... the ability to direct one's whole energies towards the fulfillment of a particular task.

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Energy and time are finite resources; conserving them is very important.

The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.

Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. And then he wins the world peace prize and becomes president of South Africa. That's how change happens. It's very important not to differentiate protest from the democratic process.

I am impressed with just the enthusiasm for life and the fact that some of these people are in their 80's, even 90's, and they're absolutely determined to get out there and make a difference.

there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

I really can't think about kissing when I've got a rebellion to incite.

While you live, the revolution lives

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, "turn on and drop out, man" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you.

The politics of fear has delivered everything we were afraid of. It's important to take a lesson from the days of Richard Nixon, when people stood up under a very oppressive president with a very oppressive Supreme Court.

Johnny's in the basement Mixing up the medicine I'm on the pavement Thinking 'bout the government.

My resisting being mistreated on the bus did not begin with that particular arrest…I did a lot of walking in Montgomery.

Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

The word which gives the key to the national vice is waste. And people who are wasteful are not wise, neither can they remain young and vigorous. In order to transmute energy to higher and more subtle levels one must first conserve it.