Alan Schultz > Alan's Quotes

“The truth is subjective; if you are limited in access to what informs you of it, have unreliable data researched about it, and/or are fed an unending stream of falsehoods surrounding it -you are much more likely to wrongly discern fact from fiction.”
― Alan Schultz

“All activism takes is having the courage to take the first step, fight through discomfort and fears, and proceed towards your ultimate goal -picking people up along the way.”
― Alan Schultz

“You don't build a house or a community by just laying one brick, you must use enough bricks to have a foundation and then build the framework to be filled in.”
― Alan Schultz

“The filth you try to wash off your clothes does not disappear with just one thorough rinsing, so it is with getting filth out of your government, out of your community, out of your life, out of your way.”
― Alan Schultz

“Watch out for "burnout" and be sure to take self-care time to destress from the anxiety filled world that is community activism and organizing. Make time for your family and friends and don't overexert yourself in organizing to the extent where you feel too tired or incapable of being as efficient and effective.You can't take care of the community if you can't take care of yourself.”
― Alan Schultz

“Be prepared to be spontaneous by being knowledgeable and current about what events and happenings are going on in your community.”
― Alan Schultz

“Once you are a more "seasoned activist" and 'woke' you are better able to say something on your own behalf and the community's.”
― Alan Schultz

“The sky is the limit if you can get tools that help you break ceilings, the knowledge to do it, and the gumption to do so -training is reaffirming if done right.”
― Alan Schultz

“The more of us, the more people are willing to listen, and the better able we are to expedite positive change for the community.”
― Alan Schultz

“Attend and hold meetings to organize and build strength. The people are what power movements and their differences are their strengths. No single person is more integral than the next since at any moment another individual could come up with the next idea that secures or wins against its oppositional force.”
― Alan Schultz

“When we turn up we learn, we feel, and grow together struggling as one.”
― Alan Schultz

“Getting out there" creates "solidarity.”
― Alan Schultz

“Your silence quite literally is a form of violence because it perpetuates it when there is no opposing force to the violence, oppression, and discrimination -that begets more of the same if left unchecked.”
― Alan Schultz

“We can't change the world or our community if we can't understand it or those that we are actively trying to change their perspectives.”
― Alan Schultz

“Take the first step towards changing the world around you by attempting to understand it.”
― Alan Schultz

“Study and research issues you care deeply about to know them inherently.”
― Alan Schultz

“Delve into what you are passionate about head first and engage with the community around you.”
― Alan Schultz

“You must start somewhere, and what better place to start than where your passion and values intersect.”
― Alan Schultz

“I am a man determined to leave the world better off for all people and future generations to come.”
― Alan Schultz

“A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue

“To understand everything is to forgive everything.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

“there is no collective guilt,...guilt is individual, like salvation.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

“The hatred of your country is not because it attacks theirs; it is because it keeps theirs safe. Never seek popularity. You can have supremacy or be loved but never both. What is felt toward you is ten percent genuine disagreement and ninety percent envy. Never forget two things! No man can ever forgive his protector. There is no loathing that any man harbors more intense than that toward his benefactor.”
― Frederick Forsyth, Avenger

“When one can understand the people, their gullibility and their fear, their greed and their lust for power, their ignorance and their docility to the man who shouts the loudest, one can forgive.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

“El claro de luna convierte al hombre más civilizado en un primitivo”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

“A journalist should never join the Establishment, no matter how tempting the blandishments. It is our job to hold power to account, not join it. In a world that increasingly obsesses over the gods of power, money, and fame, a journalist and a writer must remain detached, like a bird on a rail, watching, noting, probing, commenting, but never joining. In short, an outsider.”
― Frederick Forsyth

“There are some men whose crimes surpass comprehension and therefore forgiveness, and here is the real failure. For they are still among us,”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

“It is always tempting to wonder what would have happened if … or if not. Usually it is a futile exercise, for what might have been is the greatest of all the mysteries.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File

“That is why I believe that this coterie of vain mandarins and cowardly politicians stained the honor of my country forever, and I will never forgive them.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue

“The thing about wings is that they are yours and yours alone. You cannot inherit them from an indulgent father; you cannot buy them in Savile Row; you cannot win them in a lucky draw; you cannot marry them along with a pretty girl; you cannot steal them on a shoplifting spree. You cannot even earn them in a team event. You fight and you struggle, you study and you learn, you practice and you persevere, and finally you do it alone, high above the clouds, in a single-seater.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Outsider: My Life in Intrigue