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"Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it; despair is a confident memory of the future, in Gonzalez's resonant phrase. Optimism is similarly confident about what will happen. Both are grounds for not acting. Hope can be the knowledge that we don't have that memory and that reality doesn't necessarily match our plans...."

Quoting Laurence Gonzalez: "The plan, a memory of the future, tries on reality to see if it fits."

"Marriage equality is a threat: to inequality. It's a boon to everyone who values and benefits from equality. It's for all of us."

"Placeless events are inconceivable, in that everything that happens must happen somewhere, and so history issues from geography in the same way that water issues from a spring: unpredictably but site-specifically."