Quotes about Awareness

Some instinct tells me that eternal vigilance is the price of supremacy.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus

When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end. At one talk I was asked, "What's the difference between yourself and someone without mental illness?" At another talk I was asked, "How do you make the voices be not so mean?" I wish I knew.

Maybe just being open to things being connected made us see more. Now I shudder whenever I find that sort of connectedness creeping into my life.

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, Wait on time.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

Whites, it must frankly be said, are not putting in a similar mass effort to reeducate themselves out of their racial ignorance. It is an aspect of their sense of superiority that the white people of America believe they have so little to learn.

We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive

Nothing pains some people more than having to think

I am sorry to have to say that the vast majority of white Americans are racist, either consciously or unconsciously.

When religion becomes so involved in a future good over yonder that it forgets the present evils over here it is as dry as dust religion and needs to be condemned.

Never must the church tire of reminding men that they have a moral responsibility to be intelligent.