Joe Gerstandt | keynote speaker, freedom fighter, freak-flag flier

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

-James Russell Lowell

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom isn’t a matter of the future.  It’s a matter of the present moment.

-Thich Nhat Hanh

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving…and that is your own self.

-Aldous Huxley

Ring the bells that still can ring.  Forget your perfect offering.  There is a crack in everything, that is how the light gets in.

-L. Cohen

When you understand interconnectedness, it makes you more afraid of hating than of dying.

-Robert Thurman

In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

-George Orwell

The system often does not recognize the legitimacy of the humanity of the protagonists.

-Christopher Bradley

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it is from Neptune.

-Noam Chomsky

Resist much.  Obey little.

-Walt Whitman

Personal truth telling as a path to social change is the most important and enduring legacy.

-Gloria Steinem

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

-Adrienne Rich

If we tell ourselves that the only problem is hate, we avoid facing the reality that it is mostly nice, non-hating people who perpetuate racial inequality.

-Ellis Close

The things we fear most in organizations; fluctuations, disturbances, imbalances- are the primary sources of creativity.

-Margaret Wheatley