Quotes about Resilience

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.

Truth is powerful and it prevails.

I'm not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

I feel safe in the midst of my enemies, for the truth is all powerful and will prevail.

Then I will speak upon the ashes.

We have all been thrown down so low that nobody thought we'd ever get up again; but we have been long enough trodden now; we will come up again, and now I am here.

Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.

Oh Lord,' inquired Isabella, 'what is this slavery, that it can do such dreadful things? what evil can it not do?' Well may she ask, for surely the evils it can and does do, daily and hourly, can never be summed up, till we can see them as they are recorded by him who writes no errors, and reckons without mistake.

her unwavering confidence in an arm which she believed to be stronger than all others combined could have raised from her sinking spirit.

I'm not going to die, honey. I'm going home like a shooting star.

And a'n't, I a woman? I have borne thirteen chilern, and seen 'em mos' all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And a'n't I a woman?