I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.

As for me, the grounds of my hope have always been that history is wilder than our imagination of it and that the unexpected shows up far more regularly than we ever dream.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.