[History does not march forward like an army: it scuttles like a crab, erodes like the sporadic drizzle, ruptures like an earthquake.]

[Hope is necessary for action, and commits you to the future you envision: it throws you actively into what is emerging, to which you belong.]

[Preaching despair is easier and more popular than articulating the complex non-linear ways forward to progress.]

[Hope is being in love with success instead of failure.]

[Foundational change begins in the imagination, revolution doesn't always look like revolution.]

[Labeling ideas as dangerous is a sign of fragility lf the state: when activism terrorizes more than the war-mongering military.]