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“Beneath the Wikipedias and Facebooks and YouTubes and other shiny repositories of information, community, and culture—the Internet is, and always has been, mostly garbage.”
― Sarah Jeong, The Internet of Garbage

“If we start with the attitude that different viewpoints are additive rather than competitive, we become more effective because our ideas or decisions are honed and tempered by that discourse. In a healthy, creative culture, the people in the trenches feel free to speak up and bring to light differing views that can help give us clarity.”
― Ed Catmull

“I don’t ever want to forget that resistance must be its own reward, since resistance, at least within the life span of the resistors, almost always fails.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“The text has in it the wizardry of politics—the fact that it is possible for a multitudinous heap of people to build a shared life by doing things with words.”
― Danielle S. Allen, Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

“Grassroots worker power develops when workers identify any issue that outrages them. That could include oppressing other workers to keep the factories lily-white.”
― Erik Loomis, A History of America in Ten Strikes

“Solidarity among human beings can happen spontaneously, as in a flood or fire, or by design, through organizing.”
― Jane F. McAlevey, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

“[Organic leaders are] almost never the workers who most want to talk with us. More often than not, [they’re] the workers who don’t want to talk to us and remain in the background. They have a sense of their value and won’t easily step forward, not unless and until there’s a credible reason. That’s part of the character that makes them organic leaders.”
― Jane F. McAlevey, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

“An incorrect power analysis can lead people who want to end capitalism to think that small numbers of demonstrators occupying public spaces like parks and squares and tweeting about it will generate enough power to bring down Wall Street.”
― Jane F. McAlevey, No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age

“Jena Osman’s book Public Figures”
― Ross Gay, The Book of Delights: Essays