The guiding principle of my life, 'the means are the ends,' has taught me that our participation in a corrupt system facilitates it and corrupts and therefore defeats us. Sonia Johnson More Quotes by Sonia Johnson More Quotes From Sonia Johnson 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. Sonia Johnson falling-in-love wish inspirational In our patriarchal world, we are all 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. Sonia Johnson men order thinking There has been only one war fought literally worldwide, affecting every living thing, and that has been men's all-out, non-stop, millennia-long war against women, a war that not only continues to this moment without the slightest abatement but intensifies hourly. Sonia Johnson men war long It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary. Sonia Johnson willing-to-try scary trying Somehow I evolved into a person who ceased to ask permission. Sonia Johnson asks persons permission I came from the most orthodox background you could ask for. Sonia Johnson orthodox backgrounds asks A friend said to me, 'Be glad for your troubles - they strengthen you.' Well, if that's the truth, I'm going to be so strong they'll have to beat me to death! Sonia Johnson beats strong trouble What we have most to fear is failure of the heart. Sonia Johnson fear heart Some people always assume that if you mention a problem, you caused it. Sonia Johnson assuming problem people The spirit of religious totalitarianism is abroad in the world; it is in the very air we breathe today in this land. Everywhere are those who claim to have a corner on righteousness, on direct access to God ... The bigots of the world are having a heyday. Sonia Johnson land religious air people are strong despite suffering, not because of it. Sonia Johnson strong suffering people All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit. Sonia Johnson revolution spirit What we resist persists. Sonia Johnson persist persistence The church belongs to its hierarchy, which is men in power. Those outside the hierarchy, and especially women, are at best only renters and at worst squatters in religious territory. Sonia Johnson religious men religion I liked the name of the amendment. I couldn't help feeling uneasy that the church was opposing something with a name as beautiful as the Equal Rights Amendment. Sonia Johnson name feeling church beautiful I still feel Mormon. Those men in Salt Lake City can't decide who's Mormon and who isn't. Sonia Johnson lake city feel men
