Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.
Rebecca SolnitIf you look at a lot of traditional societies, they're all organized along what we might call anarchist guidelines, but it's not like the Zapatistas were reading European social theory.
Rebecca SolnitSometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.
Rebecca SolnitViolence always seems to me the worst form of tyranny. It deprives people of their rights, including the right to live.
Rebecca Solnit