• Hope is a discipline ― Mariame Kaba

  • Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, archivist and curator whose work focuses on ending violence, dismantling the prison industrial complex, transformative justice and supporting youth leadership development. mariamekaba.com/ 

• Our current predicament requires more love, more accountability, and more solidarity with one another, for the benefit of our collective futures -Kyle Mays

• Kyle Mays is an Afro-Indigenous (Saginaw Chippewa) writer and scholar of US history, urban studies, race relations, and contemporary popular culture. kyle-mays.com 

• Many drops can turn a mill, singly none…and in union what we will, can be accomplished still… Pete Seeger

• Pete Seeger was an American folk music artist committed to using music as an instrument for social change. peteseeger.org/ 

• Without community there is no liberation -Audre Lorde 

• Audre Lorde was a Black feminist, lesbian, poet, mother, and warrior. Both her activism and her published work speak to the importance of struggle for liberation among oppressed peoples and of organizing in coalition across differences of race, gender, sexual orientation, class, age and ability. alp.org/about/audre 

• I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become -CG Jung

•  CG Jung was a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who founded analytic psychology, in some aspects a response to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extraverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. Britannica.com 

• If you want to go fast, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together -African Proverb

• “African Proverb” is how I attributed the June quote, though there is much disagreement about the origins of this quote. I chose the overly-general continental “African Proverb,” as this is how it has been attributed most frequently, because much of what we have in the “Western World” is stolen through colonization, and since we all originate from the continent of Africa. 

• If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution. -Emma Goldman

• Emma Goldman was an organizer who championed women's equality, free love, workers' rights, free universal education regardless of race or gender, and anarchism. www.pbs.org 

• Don’t postpone joy. Keep it hot! -Edie Windsor 

• Edith “Edie” Windsor was an American LGBTQ+ rights activist and a technology manager at IBM. ediewindsor.org

• We all do better when we all do better -Paul Wellstone

• Paul Wellstone was a teacher, community organizer, political campaigner, and United States Senator. He also said “Politics is not just about power and money games, politics is about the improvement of people’s lives, about lessening human suffering in our world, and bringing about more peace and justice.” wellstonememorial.org

• The only way to survive is by taking care of each other -Grace Lee Boggs 

• Grace Lee Boggs was a Chinese American activist and philosopher whose cross-racial organizing work called for racial justice and the radical transformation of American society. www.facinghistory.org 

• If you are always trying to be normal, you’ll never know how amazing you can be -Maya Angelou

• Maya Angelou is one of the most renowned and influential voices of our time. She was a celebrated poet, memoirist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. mayaangelou.com

• We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings -Ursula K. Le Guin

• Ursula K. Le Guin was an accomplished and celebrated author whose works have been translated into 42 languages and have remained in print, often for over half a century. Ursulakleguin.com

(biographical information gathered from listed websites)