“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.”
― The Internet of Garbage
― The Internet of Garbage
“Solidarity among human beings can happen spontaneously, as in a flood or fire, or by design, through organizing.”
― No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
― No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
“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.”
― Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
― Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
“[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.”
― No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
― No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
“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.”
― We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
― We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy
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