Quotes by Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark

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Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with i — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Bush invited his constituency to be blind to the world's real problems, and leftists often do the opposite, gazing so fi — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
To say that the emperor has no clothes is a nice anti-authoritarian gesture, but to say that everything without exceptio — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Hope is not a door, but a sense that there might be a door at some point, some way out of the problems of the present mo — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
There's a kind of activism that's more about bolstering identity than achieving results, one that sometimes seems to mak — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Hopefulness is risky, since it is after all a form of trust, trust in the unknown and the possible, even in discontinuit — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Another part of the Puritan legacy is the belief that no one should have joy or abundance until everyone does, a belief — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
The term 'politics of prefiguration' has long been used to describe the idea that if you embody what you aspire to, you — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
The naively cynical measure a piece of legislation, a victory, a milestone not against the past or the limits of the pos — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
I wonder sometimes what would happen if victory was imagined not just as the elimination of evil but the establishment o — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
We inhabit, in ordinary daylight, a future that was unimaginably dark a few decades ago, when people found the end of th — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Stories migrate secretly. The assumption that whatever we now believe is just common sense, or what we always knew, is a — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable. — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
You may be told that the legal decisions lead the changes, that judges and lawmakers lead the culture in those theaters — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Their grumpiness is often the grumpiness of perfectionists who hold that anything less than total victory is failure, a — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossibl — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
We write history with our feet and with our presece and our collective voice and vision. And yet, of course, everything — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark
To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertaint — Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark