"I am never proud to participate in..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed.
More by Maya Angelou
“Some of us are timid. We think we have something to lose so we don't try for that next hill.”
“I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.”
“We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances.”
More on Self Defense
“I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.”
“Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters.”
“Nobody should teach the black man in America to turn the other cheek, unless someone is teaching the white man in America to turn the other cheek.”