“The past is recorded almost exclusively in the voices of elites and males, in the viewpoints of the wealthy and the powerful, in the visions of the literate and the educated.” John Dominic Crossan

“My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically, but that they told them symbolically and we are now dumb enough to take them literally.” John Dominic Crossan, Who Is Jesus?

“Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.” Mahatma Gandhi

“I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision. . . is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.” Barbara Deming

“That’s all nonviolence is – organized love.” Joan Baez

“The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.” Charles Dickens

“The essence of all slavery consists in taking the product of another's labor by force. It is immaterial whether this force be founded upon ownership of the slave or ownership of the money that he must get to live.” Leo Tolstoy

“When ignorance reigns in society and disorder in the minds of the people, laws are multiplied.” Peter Kropotkin

“It is only those who do nothing who make no mistakes.” Peter Kropotkin

“Politics is always a means of conquering others and exercising power over them.” Jacques Ellul

“Any great change must expect opposition, because it shakes the very foundation of privilege.” Lucretia Mott

“No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do." Dorothy Day

“I will not allow my life’s light be determined by the darkness around me.” Soujourner Truth

“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.” Mahatma Gandhi

“Come to us this night, O God, Come to us with light. Speak to us this night, O God, Speak to us your truth. Dwell with us this night, O God, Dwell with us in love.” Celtic Evening Prayer

“Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.” Psalm 82:3

“Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages.” Jeremiah 22:13

“But you have dishonored the poor man. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you, and the ones who drag you into court?” James 2:6

“Do not oppress the widow, the fatherless, the sojourner, or the poor, and let none of you devise evil against another in your heart.” Zechariah 7:10

“There's nothin' you can know that isn't known Nothin' you can see that isn't shown There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy All you need is love.” John Lennon/ Paul McCartney

“Liberation that means revolutions of hate and violence and takes away lives of others or abases the dignity of others cannot be true liberty.” Oscar Romero

“Attempting to liberate the oppressed without their reflective participation in the act of liberation is to treat them as objects that must be saved from a burning building." Paulo Freire

If you happen to be in San Antonio, TX on Friday, August 28, please join San Antonio Singing Resistance at a Community Sing from 7-8 PM followed by an ice cream social. The Sing will be held at San Antonio Mennonite Church, 1443 S. St. Mary’s.

“If we cannot recognize the truth, then it cannot liberate us from untruth.” James H. Cone

“By thinking globally I can analyze all phenomena, but when it comes to acting, it can only be local and on a grassroots level if it is to be honest, realistic, and authentic.” Jacques Ellul

“The social chain does not rest on a few; nothing of what happens in it is a matter of luck, nor the product of fate, but the intelligent work of the citizens.” Antonio Gramsci

“The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.” Emma Goldman

“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.” Mahatma Gandhi

“There’s no such thing as neutral education. Education either functions as an instrument to bring about conformity or freedom.” Paulo Freire