Starhawk Quotes

For still the new transcends the old In signs and tokens manifold; Slaves rise up men; the olive waves, With roots deep set in battle graves!

Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

There's nothing automatic about political change, about liberation.

Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.

In any social revolution the one thing that keeps it alive is hope.

Together, hand in hand, with our matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country.

It was the night things changed, can you see it now? These walls that they put up to hold us back fell down It's a revolution, throw your hands up, 'cause we never gave in

In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.

Security isn't what I hunger for. I hunger for change. I hunger for connection.

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

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.

We will take up the ball of the Revolution where our fathers stopped it and roll it to the final consummation of freedom and independence for the masses.

Neither God, nor angels, or just men, command you to suffer for a single moment. Therefore it is your solemn and imperative duty to use every means, both moral, intellectual, and physical, that promise success .... Brethren, arise, arise! Strike for your lives and liberties.... Let your motto be resistance, resistance, resistance!

It was imperative to make common cause with the oppressed in order to secure a new system opposed to the ambitions and governing habits of the oppressors.

And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea: we are the ones we have been waiting for.

I pulled the burden from off my back and tossed it into the wind. And stretched my arms toward the sky and let my life begin.

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

In raising a people from slavery to freedom, you have called them to act on a new theatre; and it is a necessary part of your business, to teach them how to perform their parts.

The people have now come to realize that the only way to deal with the oppressor is to deal on our own terms and this was done.

When people decide they want to be free, there is nothing that can stop them.

Liberation is a praxis: the action and reflection of men and women upon their world in order to transform it.

When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.

The great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.