“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.
“Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.”
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings ... The name of our beautiful reward is not profit. Its name is freedom."
"Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be."