Hope is the oxygen of rebellion. Hope makes dreams seem possible.

– Ricardo Levins Morales

  • It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. – Mahatma Gandhi

  • Hope locates itself in the premises that we don’t know what will happen and that in the spaciousness of uncertainty is room to act. – Rebecca Solnit

  • We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

  • Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair. – bell hooks

  • When I would feel overwhelmed by what was going on in the world, I would just say to myself: ‘Hope is a discipline.’ It’s less about ‘how you feel,’ and more about the practice of making a decision every day, that you’re still gonna put one foot in front of the other… – Mariame Kaba

  • To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. – Howard Zinn

  • Your power is relative, but it is real. And if you do not learn to use it, it will be used, against you, and me, and our children. Change did not begin with you, and it will not end with you, but what you do with your life is an absolutely vital piece of that chain.” – Audre Lorde

  • I can’t be a pessimist because I’m alive. To be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter, so I’m forced to be an optimist. I’m forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive. – James Baldwin

  • Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something is worth doing no matter how it turns out. – Václav Havel

  • The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. – Barbara Kingsolver