[Neither right nor left, but grassroots.]
[Nobody is opposition, only misinformed, miseducated, unclear-thinking.]
[Ideology against ideologies.]
[We don't know, but let's do it together. The result is less important than the means.]
[Paradise, AKA perfection, is not the destination, not a guiding force.]
[You write your books, you scatter your seeds, without knowing if or when they will be read, and by whom.]
[Every line published today is a victory over the future's obscurity.]
[History is less a series of finalized events and more like the weather: constantly in flux, smaller forces butterflying into larger effects far away from the source. The civil rights movement created a vocabulary and toolbox for social change; the effects go beyond the original intentions.]
[In the stock market, social and environmental destruction is defined as 'profit.]
[Under NAFTA, corporations have an absolute right to profit and local laws must not interfere. Poisoning the well is allowable, stopping the free flow of poison is not.]
[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.]
[When you recognize uncertainty, you recognize that you may be able to influence the outcomes, alone or with others.]
[Optimists assume everything will be without involvement, pessimists assume everything will fail despite involvement, both excuse themselves from acting.]
[We don't always know the impact of action beforehand, and sometimes even afterwards; many people have had more influence after death.]
[people may change how they think without consciously referencing the source, believing that they always thought that way, because it can be compromising to reveal that someone subscribed to oppressive ideologies from the mainstream; power comes from the shadows.]
