John Bellamy

We will have to make our own light long before we reach the end of the tunnel. We need to ensure nothing like this can happen again.

Fight it, resist it, persist, hold on, and if you find that you need assistance, reach out. 5/5

Stay strong, build communities, and shelter one another. Build longer tables instead of higher fences because the only way we all make it is if we all rise together. Lastly, do not forget. Remember what you see and what you hear because we will be told things aren’t as we remember them. 4/x

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” 3/x

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” 2/x

As the days come and the years drag on, I will have some solace in knowing that these battles have been fought before and that our forebearers have left us their knowledge. Today, I have some quotes from James Baldwin 1/x