Rivera Sun > Quotes

“A freedom given up is not so easily regained.”
― Rivera Sun, Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

“All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.”
― Rivera Sun, Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

“The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.”
― Rivera Sun, Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

“We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.”
― Rivera Sun, Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

“The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars.”
― Rivera Sun, Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

“Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together.”
― Rivera Sun, Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

“As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.”
― Rivera Sun, Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

“Precarious, life is. A flying leap. A sweep of hand. A star flung across the night. A lucky catch in this whirling juggling circus act.

From Steam Drills, Treadmills, and Shooting Stars”
― Rivera Sun

“Roots, he wrote, symbolize more than underground strong-arms. Roots are also origins, the tendrils of a sprouting seed that give rise to life.”
― Rivera Sun, The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -

“This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.”
― Rivera Sun, Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

“Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.”
― Rivera Sun, Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

“This world does not grow from violent roots. It flowers from the seeds of love and respect planted in our hearts. It arises in people who hold the dignity of others in equal measure to their determination for justice. It emerges in the hearts of those who remember that the greatest courage is to move from love instead of hate.”
― Rivera Sun, The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -

“Without Love, humanity dies of thirst, grasps at riches, destroys the earth through insatiable greed. Without Love, we are walking dust, dead matter stumbling from the dawn of birth to the dusk of death. Without Love, our Earth is stripped of beingness, left barren and lifeless, a pile of rocks and resources, objects to possess and control. Without Love, humanity sleepwalks as automatons, controlled, manipulated, and shoved through a nightmarish existence.”
― Rivera Sun, The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -

“No one's life made sense on paper. You cannot condense a person into facts.”
― Rivera Sun, Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -

“People don't move into action because of statistics. They move because of their hearts. We're hardwired with empathy neurons, billions of them, and human beings are evolutionarily programmed to help one another.”
― Rivera Sun, The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -

“All that is needed is to listen. The love song of the world enters our souls through the language of life. Our touchstone of strength forms the shape of our beloveds. Courage surges into our limbs. We rise. One foot steps in the direction of change. This is the Love that thrusts the world through eternity and carries us forward into the infinity of tomorrow. It sings overhead, scouring the barriers of reality, looking for an opening.”
― Rivera Sun, The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -

“We shoulder the unbearable, accomplish the impossible, and endure the unthinkable by the intensity of our love.”
― Rivera Sun, The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -

“nonviolent action succeeds twice as often as violent means, in a third of the amount of time, and with a fraction of the casualties.”
― Rivera Sun, The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -

“We are the true roots of resistance, they declared, and the scraggly leaves, golden flowers, and windborne seeds.”
― Rivera Sun, The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -

“We should be able to stand up for our ideals and not get struck down. We should be able to protest in our streets without the need for armed protection. A world of life, liberty, and love should be allowed to blossom in our towns and cities.”
― Rivera Sun, The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -

“Life wants to live, but more than that, it wants to love.”
― Rivera Sun, The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -

“Resistance is more than a battle; it is the indomitable presence of life against forces of destruction.”
― Rivera Sun, The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -

“We live in a pivotal juncture in time - a time when it is essential that we grow out of our adolescent, egotistical, and destructive ways, and blossom into the kind of people we have always yearned to be.”
― Rivera Sun, The Dandelion Insurrection - love and revolution -

“Whoever educates the children controls the future. If we want a democratic future, we must plant the seeds in our little dandelions nationwide and ensure that our education is governed of, by, and for the people.”
― Rivera Sun

“nonviolence worked not because it melted the heart of the oppressor, but because people seized their social, political, and economic power, and refused to let business-as-usual continue until their demands were met.”
― Rivera Sun, The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -

“The Internet should be free, open, uncensored, and self-governing," Tucker declared, his face shining with passion. "No one should have the right to control it, corporatize it, manipulate its truth, or own it. It is a being. And, like people, like animals, like plants, and like the Earth itself, this being has rights.”
― Rivera Sun, The Dandelion Insurrection - love and revolution -

“There's a place between passivity and violence. I'll meet you there.”
― Rivera Sun

“For the love of one person, we can find the strength to love the whole world.”
― Rivera Sun, The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -

“The strength of a movement also relied on participation. Nonviolent campaigns succeeded or failed by the numbers of people willing to get in the way of injustice, or withdraw support from tyrants, or put their hands on the freedom plow and sow the seeds of change.”
― Rivera Sun, The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -

“Resistance is singing your grandmother's songs so the next generation will know them.”
― Rivera Sun, The Roots of Resistance: - Love and Revolution -