Jo Bell Quotes

I have fallen a hopeless victim to the Turk; he is the most charming of mortals.

Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.

Resistance is a powerful motivator precisely because it enables us to fulfill our longing to achieve our goals while letting us boldly recognize and name the obstacles to those achievements.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

Part of my becoming a vegetarian was that I would look at my burger, then look at my dogs, and I wasn't able to see a difference.

Slavery is, as an example of what white America has done, a constant reminder of what white America might do.

Without justice there can be no love.

The true teacher is within us. A good teacher is someone who can help you to go back and touch the true teacher within, because you already have the insight within you.

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

Only grown-ups think that the things children say come out of nowhere. We know they come from the deepest parts of ourselves.

I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean.

What we cannot imagine cannot come into being.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

..Critically intervene in a way that challenges and changes.

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

When you play a violin piece, you are a storyteller, and you're telling a story.

Night is a more quiet time to work. It aids thought.

Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.

In the name of God and humanity I protest!

I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery.

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

All ethical people strive to choose "right" over "easy" when confronted by situations that force them to choose one or the other.

I don't think there's anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don't have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can't protect themselves.

JAG is an acronym for the Judge Advocate General, which is the judicial system of the military.

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.

Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.

America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.

I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.

I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become

The challenge throughout has been to tell what I view as the truth about racism without causing disabling despair.

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity.

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn't believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don’t believe in, we quickly discover that I don’t believe in that god, either.

I like hurting little things that can't fight back

I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.

Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

That breath that you just took, that's a gift!

The world demands that you work for it, make families, provide, take no time to listen to your own heart beating.

What would be the worst that could happen to me? Would they hang me?

My wife says I spend my life trying to teach white folks. I'm not so sure I'm proud of it, but she's right.

The vibrant, real historic Christian faith is very wide and leaves lots and lots of room for varying perspectives. It's very diverse and wide, that's part of it's strength, life and vibrancy.

I think my uncle was probably the biggest influence in my life. We grew up in the same house, and he was just a really great, hard-working, honest, ethical person.

It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5)

Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.