Awareness Quotes

"Truth does not change, only our awareness of it."

- Malcolm X

"All too often, when we see injustices, both great and small, we think, That's terrible, but we do nothing. We say nothing. We let other people fight their own battles. We remain silent because silence is easier... When we say nothing, when we do nothing, we are consenting to these trespasses against us."

- Roxane Gay

"America loves the myth of a meritocracy more than anything else, because it lets us ignore the reality of the impact of bigotry."

- Mikki Kendall

"If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say that you enjoyed it."

- Zora Neale Hurston

"I am American. That means something to me, some common ground with others of this soil, even as the country feels irredeemably racist and maybe not worth saving."

- Imani Perry

"It is a time to remember that Black history is American history. Just the other day, I was commenting that there was a record number of five Black United States senators currently serving — an incredible testament to how far we have come, and also a stark reminder of the work that remains to be done."

- Reverend Raphael Warnock

"History is a people’s memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals."

- Malcolm X

"We can't help it.  Life looks for life."

- Carl Sagan

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent  on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

- Carl Sagan

"The truth may be puzzling.  It may take some work to grapple with.  It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices.  It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true.  But our preferences do not determine what's true."

- Carl Sagan

"Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect."

- Jesus

"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves."

- Jesus

"Watch out that no one deceives you. For many will come in my name, claiming 'I am the Christ', and will deceive many."

- Jesus

"What you learn from a life in science is the vastness of our ignorance."

- David Eagleman

"The human mind is not capable of grasping the universe."

- Albert Einstein

"Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time"

- Lionel Messi

"There is more to life than just your fertility."

- Alaina Bullock

"I’ve understood that life isn’t just soccer."

- Lionel Messi

"They have money for war but can't feed the poor."

- Tupac Shakur

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."

- Albert Einstein

"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."

- Albert Einstein

"Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor."

- John Ciardi

"As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can."

- Julius Caesar

"What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences."

- Anthony Robbins

"In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary."

- Aaron Rose

"Women often endure infertility, pregnancy, infant loss, miscarriages, and stillbirths in isolation, because while sadness is a socially palatable response to these often life-altering events, rage, frustration, jealousy, and guilt are not."

- Soraya Chemaly

"For so many women and not just women in the spotlight, people feel very entitled to know, ‘Do you want kids?’ A lot of people, especially people that have fertility issues, just say ‘no’ because that’s a lot easier than being honest about whatever is actually going on. People mean so well, but they have no idea the harm or frustration it can cause."

- Gabrielle Union

"Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity."

- John Calvin

"It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday the regular crowd shuffles in."

- Billy Joel

"On the Sixth Day, God created man, the sort of result you often get when you go to work on a Saturday."

- Robert Brault