Samuel Rutherford Quotes

You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

We all have a cross to carry. I have to carry my own cross. If we don't carry our crosses, we are going to be crushed under the weight of it.

One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.

No more fear. No more begging and pleading.

Fear is the first obstacle we have to get over in our battle for freedom

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

I'm glad I didn't know how much patience entrepreneurship required. It took some time to turn that into a strength of mine, so that would've presented an obstacle when I was younger.

I've gotten used to not having all the responsibility on my shoulders.

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

I am the hawk and there's blood in my feathers, but time is still turning they soon will be dry. And all those who see me and all who believe in me, share in the freedom I feel when I fly.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.

I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

Love, one time, layeth burdens; another time, giveth wings.

You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

Women are not children. We are not fragile little birds who can't cope with jokes, works of art, or controversial speakers.

It's the Joshua tree's struggle that gives it its beauty.

If someone says can't, that shows you what to do.

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.

The human race is like a bird and it needs both wings to be able to fly. And, at the moment, one of is wings is clipped an we're never going to be able to fly as high.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.