It was moving and disconcerting to realize that these experiences—the experience of democracy and of citizenship—were so unusual and so desired. - P57
A new imagination of politics and change is already here, and I want to try to pare away what obscures it. - P59
The dream did not last, though the moment is worth cherishing. - P59
History is made out of common dreams, ground-swells, turning points, watersheds—it’s a landscape more complicated than commensurate cause and effect, and that peace movement came out of causes with roots reaching far beyond and long before Bush. - P60
Activism is not a journey to the corner store, it is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark. - P60
But life is never so tidy and final. Only death is. - P61
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