I never have been in despair about the world. Enraged. I've been enraged by the world, but never despair. I cannot afford despair...you can't tell the children that there is no hope.
"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all...is grace.”
“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.”
“Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.”
"I draw strength from the traditions of all those who, with every reason to despair, have refused to do so."
"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming." ("Podrán cortar todas las flores, pero no podrán detener la primavera.")