Sahana

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

“We did not believe what Power taught us. We skipped class when they taught conformity and idiocy. We failed modernity. We are united by the imagination, by creativity, by tomorrow.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

“Walter Benjamin wrote, “Every line we succeed in publishing today—no matter how uncertain the future to which we entrust it—is a victory wrenched from the powers of darkness.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

“But hope is not about what we expect. It is an embrace of the essential unknowability of the world, of the breaks with the present, the surprises.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities