The task we all face as human beings ... is to find and become who we are. The task teachers face is to find their own way of teaching, one that manifests who they are.

Love does not imply pacifism.

When dams were erected on the Columbia, salmon battered themselves against the concrete, trying to return home. I expect no less from us. We too must hurl ourselves against and through the literal and metaphorical concrete that contains and constrains us, that keeps us from talking about what is most important to us, that keeps us from living the way our bones know we can, that bars us from our home. It only takes one person to bring down a dam.

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

Like the layers of an onion, under the first lie is another, and under that another, and they all make you cry.

A primary purpose of the police is to enforce the delusions of those with lots of green paper.

Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back.