“The more humans fill the world, the more we empty it.”
Source: Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are
“The world of justice looks very different depending on which side of disparity you belong to. For the everyday commoner, struggle for human rights is the natural way of life, whereas for privileged egomaniacs, activism is a publicity stunt.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“We don't want to be passive squares, boring phonies, or conformists seduced by comfort trapped in a repetitive, endless ritual of consuming, who keep buying shit that's thrown at us as a bone, who forget how to ask honest and important questions, who are just trying to make it through the day.”
Source: Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism
“Rest is an act of defiance, and it cannot be predicated on apology […] We will not return to the chains that once held us […] What will become of us?
We will be free and we will be dreaming.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“I was bred to consider my own station in life, to blaze forward, to do the best, be the best, but the way Jimena and Lucy use the word build is communal. Building is talking and sharing experiences. It's gaining trust. Using the ideas and knowledge of others as building blocks to construct something that can be shared and serve all.”
Source: In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage
“This is what it's all been about with you," he said in an even tone. "All the fear, all the running. The nightmares." When she nodded, he said, "You called him the devil."
"He is." What are you thinking, Scot?
"But you... married him?"
MacRieve's disgusted with me. "Basically? Yes."
"Ceremony and everything?"
She swallowed. "He tricked me into it. I-I was only sixteen."
A muscle ticked in his cheek and his irises grew pale. "Then know this..."
She stopped breathing.
"Lass, I'm about to make you a widow--”
Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince
“Shrinking forests, melting ice, plowed grasslands, raging fires, drying rivers, and dying corals — diminished of all the major habitats, proxy for all who live therein, means that the numbers of free-living animals are the lowest ever, and mostly falling, across the board. It means something acutely awful, I think: that the human species has made itself incompatible with the rest of Life on Earth.”
Source: Becoming Wild: How Animals Learn Who They Are
“Prayerism is self-preservation, activism is world-preservation.”
Source: Rowdy Scientist: Handbook of Humanitarian Science
“The more you try to bury us, the firmer our roots. The more you try to silence us, the louder our song.”
Source: Paragon Seven
“If you want to learn about patriarchal families, you don't ask the father, you ask the mother; then maybe you will learn something.”
Source: Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World