Quotes by Sonia Johnson

“What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.”

“As we do at such times I turned on my automatic pilot and went through the motions of normalcy on the outside, so that I could concentrate all my powers on surviving the near-mortal wound inside.”

“I am a warrior in the time of women warriors; the longing for justice is the sword I carry, the”

“I liked the name of the amendment. I couldnt help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment.”

“Its only when we have nothing else to hold onto that were willing to try something very audacious and scary . . .”

“In our patriarchal world, we are al1 taught -- whether we like to think we are or not -- that God, being male, values maleness much more than he values femaleness . . . that in order to propitiate God, women must propitiate men.”

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

How desperately we wish to maintain our trust in those we love! In the face of everything we try to find reasons to trust. Because losing faith is worse than falling out of love.

So long as we think dugout canoes are the only possibility-all that is real or can be real-we will never see the ship we will never feel the free wind blow.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

Its only when we have nothing else to hold onto that were willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Sometimes I think we can tell how important it is to risk by how dangerous it is to do so.