Beautiful Trouble Quotes

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
― Andrew Boyd, Beautiful Trouble: Pocket Edition

“While associated with confrontation, direct action at its core is about power. Smart direct action assesses power dynamics and finds a way to shift them.”
― Andrew Boyd, Beautiful Trouble: Pocket Edition

“For the silent leaders behind every victory “who strain in the mud and the muck to move things forward, who do what has to be done, again and again” (Marge Piercy).”
― Andrew Boyd, Beautiful Trouble: Pocket Edition

“Big-picture concepts and ideas that help us understand how the world works and how we might go about changing it.”
― Andrew Boyd, Beautiful Trouble: Pocket Edition

“Rather than dictating strict courses of action, we instead offer a matrix of flexible, interlinked concepts that practitioners can pick and choose among, applying them in unique ways that may vary with each situation they may face.”
― Andrew Boyd, Beautiful Trouble: Pocket Edition