John Hope Quotations

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

Possibly the most important phase to recovery is getting the life back to normal again, ... And what we're talking about here in Corvallis is assisting people who want to get their lives back to normal, and who cannot go back to the life that is in the Gulf Coast because of Katrina.

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

If we only have five families that want to relocate, that is wonderful, ... We will have done what we should.

We must get beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths... and tell the world the glories of our journey.

Rise, Brothers! Come let us possess this land. Never say: "Let well enough alone" . . . Be discontented. Be dissatisfied.

What we are having difficulty with right now is finding the voice,

Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.

There's a great desire in people after a tragedy like this to go back to their lives as it was, ... This may not be possible for some.

If money, education, and honesty will not bring to me as much privilege, as much equality as they bring to any American citizen, then they are to me a curse, and not a blessing.