Linda McCartney Quotes

My broken brilliance will shine a light in the darkness.

Fear is the greatest form of oppression. The best way to rise up in protest is to live your life to its fullest!

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

When life descends into the pit I must become my own candle Willingly burning my self To light up the darkness around me.

Cause there's a light in me that shines brightly. They can try, but they can't take that away from me.

My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light.

Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this earth. It may sleep, but it will awaken. It may wear chains, but it will break through.

Even in darkness it is possible to create light.

In the midst of darkness, light persists.

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

One of the most important functions of jazz has been to encourage a hope for freedom, for people living in situations of intolerance or struggle.

Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.

I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You've been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, 'I will not be silenced.'

There are forces all around you who wish to exploit division, rob you of your freedom, and tell you what to think. But young folks can rekindle the weary spirit of a slumbering nation.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.

Her light shall pierce through the darkness of ignorance and man’s oppression.

We were not defeated. We had been refugees. Now we were freedom fighters.

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise