Septima Poinsette Clark Quotes

• I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Inspirational, Truth, Believe

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• I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Peace, Creativity, Thinking

  Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

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• I just tried to create a little chaos. Chaos is a good thing. God created the whole world out of it. Change is what comes of it.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  World, Littles, Chaos

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• My philosophy is such that I am not going to vote against the oppressed. I have been oppressed, and so I am always going to have avote for the oppressed, regardless of whether that oppressed is black or white or yellow or the people of the Middle East, or what. I have that feeling.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Philosophy, Yellow, White

  Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

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• The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Freedom, Air, Together

  Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

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• What we are working for is an educational program that has become a resource and rallying point for scores of brave southerners who are leading the fight for justice and better race relations in these crucial days

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Educational, Fighting, Race

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• I never felt that getting angry would do you any good other than hurt your own digestion- keep you from eating, which I liked to do.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Hurt, Ice Cream, Digestion

  Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

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