Radical

The most radical climate policy--the one that will most disrupt our lives--is the status quo.
--Jake M. Grumbach

Humility

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
--St. Augustine [02.11.99]

Fraud

Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic
mixtures that no pure race remains.
--Albert Einstein (October 1929)

Want

Sometimes you have to make the thing you want to be part of.
--Steven Edney

Hard

Creating anything is hard. It's a cliché thing to say, but every time you start a job, you just don't know anything.
--Philip Seymour Hoffman

Power

Never underestimate the power of a second chance.
--Tanya McKean

Keep Trying

C'mon, you know how this works. You fail and then you try something else. And you fail again, and again, and you fail a thousand times, and you keep trying because maybe the thousand-and-first idea might work.
--Michael Schur

Meaningful

We cannot have a meaningful revolution without humor.
--bell hooks [12.11.15]

You

I like you; your eyes are full of language.
--Anne Sexton

Certainty

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
--Voltaire [04.04.01]

Meaning

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have meaning.
--Vaclav Havel

Radical

True love is radical because it requires us to see ourselves in all people. Otherwise, it isn't love. Love is revolutionary because it has us treat all people as we would ourselves--not because we are charitable, but because we are one. That is love's radical conclusion.
--Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Option

Relapse into barbarism is always an option.
--Theodor Adorno

Hates

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
--James Baldwin

Soul

The soul, equal and eternal, emanates from bodies of different shapes and colors. Whoever foments and spreads antagonism and hate between the races, sins against humanity.
--Jose Marti [12.02.05]

Agitation

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
--Frederick Douglass

Embrace

Hope is an embrace of the unknown and the unknowable, an alternative to the certainty of both optimists and pessimists.
--Rebecca Solnit [01.25.17]

No, I'd never been to this country
before. No, I didn't know where the roads
would lead me. No, I didn't intend to
turn back.
--Mary Oliver

Truth

The unconscious wants truth. It ceases to speak to those who want something else more than truth.
--Adrienne Rich

Skin

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
--Samuel Ullman [04.26.02]

Small Acts

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power that can transform the world.
--Howard Zinn