Jo Bell Quotes

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

When we choose to love, we choose to move against fear, against alienation and separation. The choice to love is a choice to connect, to find ourselves in the other.

The day will come when the man at the telephone will be able to see the distant person to whom he is speaking.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The moment we choose to love we begin to move against domination, against oppression. The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.

The only difference between success and failure is the ability to take action.

[O]ne of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone.

I have the best roommates in the world! It creates a fun sense of family... and that's really important to me. Things can get so lonely without it.

The practice of love is the most powerful antidote to the politics of domination.

As long as women are using class or race power to dominate other women, feminist sisterhood cannot be fully realized.

To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

Don't keep forever on the public road, going only where others have gone and following one after the other like a flock of sheep. Leave the beaten track occasionally and dive into the woods.

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe.

The rage of the oppressed is never the same as the rage of the privileged.

Sometimes people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power - not because they don't see it, but because they see it and they don't want it to exist.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be.

First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

One day every major city in America will have a telephone.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

To build community requires vigilant awareness of the work we must continually do to undermine all the socialization that leads us to behave in ways that perpetuate domination.

God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut

Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at our very feet that we have never seen, because we have never really looked.

I love to go bungee jumping, jump out of planes, ride motorbikes, do kickboxing. I love all that stuff.

It's so nice to be a spoke in the wheel, one that helps to turn, not one that hinders.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

To wake in that desert dawn was like waking in the heart of an opal. ... See the desert on a fine morning and die - if you can!

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

There is nothing more difficult to measure than the value of visible emotion.

I didn't figure out the makeup or cute hair or clothes until oh, maybe my junior year of high school.

I have travelled around the globe. I have seen the Canadian and American Rockies, the Andes, the Alps and the Highlands of Scotland, but for simple beauty, Cape Breton outrivals them all!

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

You are not going to destroy this imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy by creating your own version of it.

Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth.

Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

What we do comes out of who we believe we are.

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.