Michael Johnston > Quotes

“There was a new simplicity to what I did, a door that had opened before me to worlds I had not imagined. From where I sat, if you watched carefully you could marvel at it, like the impossible birth of a cottonseed or the slow rise of a wooden house: the steady construction of a man, built brick by brick from the shadow of a boy.”
― Michael Johnston, In the Deep Heart's Core

“Popular participation is seen in positive terms, but – once we move beyond grand strategy to specific questions of priorities and tactics – primarily as backing agendas set from above.”
― Michael Johnston, The Conundrum of Corruption: Reform for Social Justice