Matthew Clanahan

“Silence is the beginning of all worship.”
― Skye Jethani, The Divine Commodity: Discovering a Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity

“I fought; I fought for the immortal soul the preachers had taught me to believe in. I do not know whether I ever believed in it—I had never seen God, and He had never spoken to me—but I fought for it anyway, and I fought for Alexander.”
― Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, In the Forests of the Night

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

“The opposition to those who work for social change does not come only from those who are the guarantors of the status quo. Again and again it has been demonstrated that the lines are held by those whose hold on security is sure only as long as the status quo remains intact. The reasons for this are not far to seek. If a man is convinced that he is safe only as long as he uses his power to give others a sense of insecurity, then the measure of their security is in his hands. If security or insecurity is at the mercy of a single individual or group, then control of behavior becomes routine. All imperialism functions in this way. Subject peoples are held under control by this device.”
― Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited