#p106

Some people find it easier to accept that horrible things will happen than to actually fight them.

"So you see, translators do not so much deliver a message as they rewrite the original. And herein lies the difficulty - rewriting is still writing, and writing always reflects the author's ideology and biases. After all, the Latin translatio means "to carry across". Translation involves a spatial dimension - a literal transportation of texts across conquered territory, words delivered like spices from an alien land. Words mean something quite different when they journey from the palaces of Rome to the tearooms of today's Britain."

Be very wary of people who declare that they’re going to create heaven on earth, they almost invariably create hell.

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and desperate measures are often fertilized with bullshit.

"Emotional growth is nonlinear. It feels really important to me to include pieces on grief and emotions in this book because, as people participating in movements, we are faced with so much loss, and because we have to learn to give each other more time to feel, to be in our humanity. Not to come to a standstill as a movement, but to take turns actually feeling what is happening to and around us, and letting our feeling help us understand what we must do. Because that is what we are creating, a world where we can feel ourselves and each other and do less harm and generate more freedom."