“Advice on being human. Do not stomach what you have no taste for, for you will develop the taste.”
“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 think despair is an endemic part of revolution. No revolution happens within one lifetime so we work to capacity, we believe in what we are doing knowing full well we won’t see the fruits of our labor. It is a hard place to hold.”
“For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?”
“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.”
“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.