We who believe in freedom, whose daily lives are made up of the clash between what we want for this world and the violent greed that surrounds us, ne… - Aurora Levins Morales

it's essential that we understand this: every struggle is an ecological struggle.

All peoples under attack learn the languages of those who can do us harm. We are multilingual of necessity. Those of us who, by using that language successfully, gain access to a small piece of public ground must fight continually to push our authenticity into print, onto the airwaves, into the classroom, out from the podium. ("On Not Writing English")

History is the story we tell ourselves about how the past explains our present, and how the ways in which we tell it are shaped by contemporary needs.