Julie Stout

“Perhaps sometimes, at a really granular level, we were really protesting our phones.”
― Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

“But if you refuse to use the tools that work, you are not really building; you are refusing to take responsibility, and you are ceding your power to other people.”
― Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

“You can get yourself all fucked up on revolutionary élan, just like you can drink alcohol or take drugs. But it warps your senses and causes you to make poor decisions. It isn’t real, and you’re going to pay for it later. If you want the feeling of mass ecstasy you should go to a music festival instead of encouraging vulnerable young people to go out and get killed.”
― Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

“the classic solution—construct a self-consciously democratic organization that ensures this happens in the most legitimate and transparent ways possible.”
― Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution