“The future will be different if we make the present different.”
“You can't see the future coming -- not the terrors, for sure, but you also can't see the wonders that are coming, the moments of light-soaked joy that await each of us.”
“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.”
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.
“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future.”
“We don't have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we think humans should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”