"Belief initiates and guides action-or it does nothing" — Octavia Bulter
"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything" — George Bernard Shaw
"All that you touch, you change...all that you change, changes you. The only lasting truth is change. God is change. " — Octavia Butler
"Focus on where you are going rather than on what you hope to avoid." — Ben Horowitz
"I believe that the future will be merciful to us all. Revolutionist and reactionary, victim and executioner, betrayer and betrayed, they shall all be pitied together when the light breaks..." — Under the Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
“Movements are what take five or ten percent of people and make them decisive—because in a world where apathy rules, five or ten percent is an enormous number.” — Bill McKibben
"The Third Law of Organizational Development: in any significant transition, the thing that the organization needs to let go of is the very thing that got it this far." — William Bridges
“If you cry, “Forward,” you must make clear the direction in which to go. Don’t you see that if you fail to do that and simply call out the word to a monk and a revolutionary, they will go in precisely the opposite directions?” — Anton Chekhov
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.” — Anatole France
“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.” — John Kenneth Galbraith
“Choosing our own comfort over hard conversations is the epitome of privilege, and it corrodes trust and moves us away from meaningful and lasting change.” — Brene Brown
“Knowledge is built through struggle. It isn't just built through somebody theorizing an idea. But through struggle, we come up with new concepts and ideas." — Angel's Davis paraphrased by Mariame Kaba
“God will not have his work made manifest by cowards" —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” — Peter Drucker
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.” — John Gall
“I worked for a menial’s hire, Only to learn dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have willingly paid” — Jessie B. Rittenhouse
“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” –Niccolò Machiavelli
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” — Sun Tzu
"All change is not systems change or even political change. Sometimes positive change upholds the status quo. We are not here to feel good all the time, but to do good.” — Adrienne Maree Brown
“The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.” — John Rawls
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.” — Jan L. A. Van de Snepscheut
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” – Frederick Douglass
"An inheritance claimed too soon will not be blessed" Proverbs 20:21
“Movements are not stumbled upon: you do not stagger your way into freedom. You do not wake up to liberation. This is hard won." —M. Adam's