Lynn Nottage Quotes

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice; if you choose to identify not only with the powerful, but with the powerless; if you retain the ability to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages, then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence, but thousands and millions of people whose reality you have helped transform for the better. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.

I believe in people, and you don't need to be a feminist for that.

You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

I write toward both idealism and reality - how things are and how I wish they could be.

In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.

To me, one of the best faces America has ever projected is the face of a Peace Corps volunteer. That face symbolizes this country: young, curious, brimming with idealism and hope - and a real, honest compassion.

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

We must rekindle the fire of idealism in our society.

Homeboy Industries has chosen to stand with the 'demonized' so that the demonizing will stop; it stands with the 'disposable' so that the day will come when we stop throwing people away.

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.

Sometimes idealism and all that make believe makes the world a better place.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

If the Reddit community cannot learn to balance authenticity and compassion, it may be a great website, but it will never be a truly great community.

Jesse Jackson, when I met him, he had an innocence about him which is still very much a part of him today.

I am quite a dreamer. I think we all are dreamers. We all don't like to live a practical life all the time. There is a thin line between our hopes and dreams.

One thing I carried my whole life, especially from my grandparents in Chicago, was a huge idealism for the world.

Everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man— Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.