“As one Questioner pointed out, 'The Rebels' best asset is their voice of dissent. We shouldn't try to school it out of them, or to corporate-culture it out, or shame it out. It's there to protect us all.”
Source: The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better
“Whoever educates the children controls the future. If we want a democratic future, we must plant the seeds in our little dandelions nationwide and ensure that our education is governed of, by, and for the people.”
“nonviolence worked not because it melted the heart of the oppressor, but because people seized their social, political, and economic power, and refused to let business-as-usual continue until their demands were met.”
Source: The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -
“With his face all scrunched up and twisted with anger, he looked just like Draco Malfoy in Harry Potter. Sometimes when someone is making an idiot of themselves, especially on live television, it’s just better to let them go ahead.”
Source: Make Trouble: Standing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding the Courage to Lead
“Society is going to have to deal with us not as nice little fairies who have hairdressing salons, but as people capable of violence. We’re not going to put up with Dan Whites anymore.”
Source: Stitching a Revolution: The Making of an Activist
“Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.' Those words aren't intended to be an idyllic abstraction, they're our call to action.”
Source: And Whose Life Are You Living Anyway? What Wise Women Know and Do about Purposeful Living
“I'm a person who is unpractical and idealistic. A rebellious dreamer plagued by night terrors. An affinity for the story of Superman, drinking, sex, jazz, writing, drugs, activism, golf, family, cooking, eating good food, reading books and savoring their hypnotic bouquet, for me, is like stumbling over a rock and recovering my equilibrium. This is the story of me.”
“Emergent strategy is a way that all of us can begin to see the world in life-code—awakening us to the sacred systems of life all around us.”
“emergence notices the way small actions and connections create complex systems, patterns that become ecosystems and societies. Emergence is our inheritance as a part of this universe; it is how we change. Emergent strategy is how we intentionally change in ways that grow our capacity to embody the just and liberated worlds we long for.”
“Punishment is not something inflicted by the good upon the bad, but rather by the powerful upon the powerless.”