N. T. Wright Quotes

I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real.

Just because I'm a recording artist doesn't mean I'm not an artist. Because I had to grow.

I'm not angry. I can't sing that loud for that long anyway, I'll start coughing - I don't have the instrument for it. I don't feel that emotional. I'm at peace.

Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.

It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.

Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?

Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.

even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.

what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being over old, under done, and dry o' gravy.

Character, self-discipline, determination, attitude and service are the substance of life.

In trying to make a big difference, don't ignore the small daily differences we can make.

Every day I wear my Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth medallions around my neck. When I think I'm having a bad day, I try to think about their day, and I get up.

Democracy cannot breathe, indeed will die, if those enjoined to protect it and uphold the laws snuff it out - with no consequences.

So much of America's tragic and costly failure to care for all its children stems from our tendency to distinguish between our own children and other people's children--as if justice were divisible.

If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.

People want to pick the leader, and we are obsessed with celebrity and whoever is on the cover of this or that.

The crisis of children having children has been eclipsed by the greater crisis of children killing children.

I also grew up with community co-parents who looked out for each other. They looked out for children and tried to be the hands of God. They tried to live their faith.

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

God did not create two classes of children or human beings-only one.

I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.

In politics, there are no friends.

I don't care what my children choose to do professionally, just as long as within their choices they understand they've got to give something back.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice.

It is a spiritually impoverished nation that permits infants and children to be the poorest Americans.

Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

I have always believed that I could help change the world, because I have been lucky to have adults around me who did.

History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.

Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.

We all need to get out of our safety zones too. In addition to voting, we need to embarrass people who don't do the right thing. It's going to take citizen action.

People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!

None of the candidates are ever perfect, ok? Then you have to get them in there and you have to hold them accountable. You have to make noises.

That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter is doing, mobilizing people. God bless them.

I try to act out of faith.

I need to work outside government, on my own.

So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable.

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

I get very upset with all of the crowd seekers today, and people out there trying to get on TV. It ain't about you. It's about trying to make the world more just for everybody.

Amidst protestations of 'Who can be against the children?' too few people are FOR children when it really matters.

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

We were meant to influence the world, not have the world influence us.

I'm not impressed by your money or what you have.

Justice and beauty are central to God's new world and should be central to our work. Together they frame the good news of Jesus.