Lissie

“How many heartfuls of sorrow shall balance a bushel of wheat? How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real! And all this life and love and strife and failure,—is it the twilight of nightfall or the flush of some faint-dawning day?”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The W. E. B. Du Bois Collection

“It is important for upcoming activists to study American history, as well as political and philosophical thought. It is unlikely that what you hope to accomplish is new. Current activism is almost always linked to the history of revolution worldwide, and Americans have a special connection to this legacy because our nation was born out of the struggle against tyranny.”
― John Lewis, Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America

“the chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”
― John Lewis