February 2012
8 posts
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the...”
– —Mary Anne Radmacher
“Once we learn to love ourselves, it is impossible to miss how important it is to...”
– —Rushelle Frazier
“We are building our capacity to create community principles, skills, and...”
– —Mimi Kim
“To respond to high levels of harm in ways that are not derivative of the Prison...”
– —Morgan Bassichis
“The prayer I give today is a prayer for you, too. Here’s to all of your and my...”
– —Lisa Marie Rollins
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you...”
– —Rumi
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
– —Zora Neale Hurston
“I see too many of us feed everyone else and forget to eat.”
– —Moya Bailey
January 2012
10 posts
“In an age where internet courage can allow you to rail at any deemed threat...”
– —Moya Bailey
“neither of us have anything to tell. I, because I conceal nothing and you,...”
– —Marianne Dashwood
“always do your best - Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it...”
– —Don Miguel Ruiz
“Only with something so small, that can be in everyone’s hands, can we...”
– —Dr. Vandana Shiva
“An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle,...”
– —James Baldwin
“We are all tied in a single garment of destiny, … caught in an inescapable...”
– —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes...”
– —Sugar
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish...”
– —Anaïs Nin
“We are each other’s business; we are each other’s harvest; we are...”
– —Gwendolyn Brooks
December 2011
4 posts
“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each...”
– —Mother Teresa
“And if we always fight for the most left behind, then we all come up. And if we...”
– —Malachi Garza
“I don’t write this post to make people with diamonds on their fingers feel bad....”
– —eeshap.
“The way we build to scale is by having political infrastructure that goes beyond...”
– — Malachi Garza, Bold! Conference 2011.
October 2011
15 posts
“i feel myself struggling to stay centered on what i really believe in:...”
– —Micah Hobbes Frazier
“The coming struggle is a political struggle to take political power out of the...”
– —Grace Lee Boggs
“I have been in movement spaces for a long time, and we have a way of doing...”
– —Adrienne Maree Brown.
“A quest is different for everyone,” she said, “but the courage is the same.”
– —Catherine Li.
“Georgia’s government was created by and for plantation farmers, the original 1%,...”
– —Kung Li from The Space Being Occupied by Occupy Atlanta.
“You have to find a way to inhabit your body while enacting your deepest desires....”
– —Sugar, from #86 Tiny Revolutions.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
– —Frederick Douglass
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To...”
– —Arundhati Roy
“I’ve written often about how it is we have to reach hard in the direction of the...”
– —Sugar, from #86 Tiny Revolutions.
“let the beauty we love be the beauty we do.”
– —Rumi
“There are so many tiny revolutions in a life, a million ways we have to circle...”
– —Sugar, from #86 Tiny Revolutions.
“Maybe this is how movements need to maintain themselves, through a recognition...”
– —Manissa McCleave Maharawal from So Real, It Hurts: Notes on Occupy Wall Street.
“Let me tell you what it feels like to stand in front of a white man and explain...”
– —Manissa McCleave Maharawal from So Real, It Hurts: Notes on Occupy Wall Street.
“courage is vital piece of any well-lived life. I understand why you’re afraid,...”
– —Sugar, from #86 Tiny Revolutions.
“That’s crisis and it ain’t that important what you do in a crisis. You go beyond...”
– —Bernice Johnson Reagon.
September 2011
12 posts
“There is a brokenness out of which comes the unbroken, a shatteredness out of...”
– —Rashani
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of...”
– —James Baldwin
“Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut,and heart,...”
– — June Jordan
“desire is a half grown child, the heat without the ache, the shine without the...”
– —E.R. Anderson.
“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn’t help the poor,...”
– —Stephen Colbert
“I am concerned that we are very shortsighted, and we think that the issue we...”
– —Bernice Johnson Reagon.
“Suggesting that getting one’s nails done—or wearing suspenders and bow ties—is a...”
– —Kara, from on relevance and resistance.
“We can make something magical, even of the present disappointing dilemma. We can...”
– —Alice Walker
““it has taken me this long to take the word american back into my mouth...”
– —Adrienne Maree Brown from on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.
“[In] the realm of health and healing, I saw people taking a righteous turn: ...”
– —Cara Page
“…for each of us in some way has been both oppressed and the oppressor. We are...”
– —Cherríe Moraga (via kay)
“Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future...”
– —Alice Walker
August 2011
15 posts
“We knew that transforming society, our communities, and ourselves go hand in...”
– —Morgan Bassichis from Reclaiming Queer and Trans Safety.