Bridget Graber

“After all, a society that takes care of its own does not produce children who grow up dreaming of burning it down.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Heavenly Tyrant

“You had to pause in the face of reflex, ask yourself if the narrative you attached to the knee-jerk was accurate. Once she’d grasped this, she could never again see life as a static thing, something with one immutable definition. The universe was not an object. It was a beam of light, and the colours that it split into changed depending on whose eyes were doing the looking. Nothing could be taken at face value. Everything had hidden facets, hidden depths that could be interpreted a thousand ways – or misinterpreted in the same manner. Reflexes kept a person safe, but they could also make you stupid.”
― Becky Chambers, The Galaxy, and the Ground Within

“Uprisings and resistance and mass movement require a tolerance of messiness, a tolerance of many, many paths being walked on at once.”
― Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

“In other words, the halo effect of the industry prevents people from seeing—or acting upon—problems that may exist within it. When workplace issues crop up, such as undercompensation, racism, or sexism, they are seen as isolated incidents rather than systemic flaws.”
― Simone Stolzoff, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work