Erik Ogan

“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more...”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The result is that too many elected officials are basing important decisions not on what would be best for all Americans but on what they imagine would appeal to a small number of swing voters usually at the center-right of the political debate.”
― Becky Bond, Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything

“We also need to understand that white supremacy is at the heart of the problem—not just a racially associated economic inequality.”
― Becky Bond, Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything

“When organizers figure out how to integrate the huge opportunities that new, social technology provides with effective peer-to-peer organizing principles and practices as part of a smart, centralized plan—that’s big organizing.”
― Becky Bond, Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything