“Anyone who claims that I am a dreamer who expects to transform hell into heaven is wrong. I have few illusions, but I feel a responsibility to work towards the things I consider good and right. I don’t know whether I’ll be able to change certain things for the better, or not at all. Both outcomes are possible. There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.”
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
“Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.”
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
“When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way, critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominant culture.”
“Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.”
Hope's statements of promise anticipate the future. In the promises, the hidden future already announces itself and exerts its influence on the present through the hope it awakens.