“If my imprisonment is the price for the awakening of a people, I gladly accept it.”— Leopoldo López
“The old ones say the Native American has been sleeping for 500 years. It is time for us to wake up.”— Dennis Banks
“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”— Annie Dillard
“A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.”— G. I. Gurdjieff
“Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav'n, and strikes The Sultan's Turret with a Shaft of Light.”— Omar Khayyam
“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.”— Kate Chopin
“A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that is playing inside him.”— Vernon Howard
“Life and death are of supreme importance. Time swiftly passes by and opportunity is lost. Each of us should strive to awaken.”— Dōgen Zenji
“An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men, to make them critical, to make them question.”— Marvin Gaye
“Women, for too long you have been in a state of moral and intellectual slumber.”— Valentine de Saint-Point