From Her Books, I Have Chosen To Stay And Fight, ACTIVISM
“Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless.”
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance (1985)
Context: Summits like those in Geneva promote hope. But hope without action is hopeless. Our enthusiasm for the positive spirit in these deliberations must not blind us to the absence of genuine progress toward disarmament. Twenty-four nuclear bombs are being added weekly to world arsenals.
“These men are all talk; What is needed is action”
action!
Remarks at the New England Anti-Slavery Convention (May 1859), quoted in William Lloyd Garrison by Wendell and Francis Garrison.
Hays translation
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book IX, 6
Source: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
“God has promised to supply our needs. What we don’t have now we don’t need now.”
Source: The Path of Loneliness: Finding Your Way Through the Wilderness to God
“talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.”
Source: What Happened to Goodbye
"What the World Needs Now is Love" (1965); this song was actually written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and offered to other singers who initially passed it up. It became DeShannon's first number one hit.
Misattributed
