The truth is never pretty.
In any system, there will be change happening without you.
What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me. "
Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them.
The question, "When did you last listen to a poor person properly and try to understand what's going on inside their own experience?" enables you to connect.
Often we're having an argument with something imaginary - a fixed idea of the "enemy" and the good. We need to get beyond that and actually develop a deep curiosity about people and systems and understand them better.
We should look at how "the enemy" - people that you wouldn't necessarily agree with - have done change and see whether there's bits in there that we could learn from.
Cotton candy is the most amazing form of caramelization ever invented by man.
The God of Israel is King of kings and Lord of lords. . . He know, and foreknows, all things, and his foreknowledge is foreordination; he, therefore, will have the last word, both in world history and in the destiny of every man; his kingdom and righteousness will triumph in the end, for neither men nor angels shall be able to thwart him.
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day
You cannot take away one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. You cannot add to the universe one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. As such, evolution does not come out of zero; then, where does it come from? From previous involution.