For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
More Quotes from Alice Walker:
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.Alice Walker
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
Alice Walker
There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.
Alice Walker
To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.
Alice Walker
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
Activism is my rent for living on this planet.
Alice Walker
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Liberty & Freedom Quotes, War & Peace QuotesIn many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher
A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.
Robert Rainy