Awareness Quotes

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"There comes a time when people get tired of being plunged into the abyss of exploitation and nagging injustice."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done."

- Russell Simmons

"Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength-carrying two days at once. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength — carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear."

- Corrie ten Boom

""That clock you hear is the sound of your own heart. Sink your teeth into this life, and don’t get let go.""

- Lin Manuel Miranda

"For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive; in this century he is beginning to realize that, in order to survive, he must protect it."

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

"The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man, it is to know that and to wonder at it."

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

"We are all happy if we but knew it."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky