“I believe in living. I believe in birth. I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth. And I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, seasick sailors, can still be guided him to port.”
"Love is contraband in Hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars."
- Assata Shakur
Love
"I’m not quite sure what freedom is, but I know damn well what it ain’t. How have we gotten so silly, I wonder."
- Assata Shakur
Awareness
"Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other peoples’ freedom as well."
- Assata Shakur
Compassion
"Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them."
- Assata Shakur
Adversity
"Revolution is about change, and the first place the change begins is in yourself."
- Assata Shakur
Change
"Happiness is possible even in the midst of darkness."
- Beauty and the Beast
Hope
"No one is beyond redemption."
- Beauty and the Beast
Hope
"You will … hear us declare with Moroni that hope is essential if we are to ‘receive [the] inheritance [God] hast prepared [for us]’ [Ether 12:32]. We want you to claim that inheritance as sons and daughters of a king. To do that, we must realize that hope is not just the message and manner of the naturally optimistic; it is the privilege of everyone who believes."
- Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
Hope
"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."
- Cormac McCarthy
Hope
"Light tomorrow with today."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hope