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“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.”

Audre Lorde
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“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.”

bell hooks
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"The revolt against brutality begins with a revolt against the language that hides that brutality."

Rebecca Solnit
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"Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but bringing them to life."

Guy Debord
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"The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?"

Dorothy Day
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"From this moment despair ends and tactics begin."

Raoul Vaneigem
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"The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension."

Steven Biko
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