The nature of oppression can be very tame, and often goes by the false name of civility.
Revolution is simple. It is like breathing — out with the old, and in with the new.
The spirit of revolution should be rooted in the principle that eventually there will be an accounting for past injustices, not a punitive accounting which will create more conflict, but a reform in the state of consciousness that allowed the injustices occur in the first place.
Revolution that does not advance us toward higher consciousness and compassion is devolution.
True revolution advances consciousness.
There is no hurtful or violent spirit in true revolution, for if that dark spirit is present, then it is not true revolution, but is even a step backwards.
Place your allegiance and respect in what is everlasting and real, not in the transitory and false.
Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.
It is in the prisons that we hide away our shame and thoughtless creations as a society.
The prisons are full of society's "quick fixes"; they are brimming with our failures as a community of responsibility.
