Lindsey

“The more we want to exploit a body, the less humanity we allow it.”
― Melissa Febos, Girlhood

“Faith is the belief that certain outcomes will happen, and hope is the belief that certain outcomes can happen. So when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. says, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice," he is speaking from a place of faith. He is confident that justice is inevitable, even if it may come in another lifetime. Faith is often rooted in the belief of a higher power, in God. Hope on the other hand would mean reframing the statement to say, "The arc of the moral universe is long, and it will bend toward justice, if we bend it. Faith is rooted in certainty, hope is rooted in possibility, and they both require their own different kinds of work.”
― DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope

“We had to begin to practice deep, authentic collaboration. This meant a shift in how we move financial and human resources—there are enough people out there to support the movement(s) we need, but currently, organizations are pitted against each other to access money (less and less money), rather than creating and investing together to maximize a diversity of resources from money, to people, to spaces, to skills. Because we are not investing in a shared network of resources, it is easy to let structural and ideological particularities create deep splits throughout the non-profit sphere, rendering much of our work useless.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

“Hope is the belief that our tomorrows can be better than our todays. Hope is not magic; hope is work.”
― DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom: The Case for Hope