“Democracy is of limited usefulness when there are no good choices, or when the good choices become bad as soon as you’ve chosen them, or when all the Information access in the world can’t make people use it.”
~ @older.bsky.social, Infomocracy

“There is enough for all. So there should be no more people living in poverty. And there should be no more billionaires. Enough should be a human right, a floor below which no one can fall; also a ceiling above which no one can rise. Enough is as good as a feast-or better.”
~ Kim Stanley Robinson

“It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.”
~ James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
(Drawing on photo by @lizstephens.bsky.social)

“To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.”
~ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, Hope in the Dark
(Painting 8.5 x 11 acrylic on wood)

“Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal...
~ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, Hope in the Dark
(Art 2ft x 2.5ft acrylic on wood)

“Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.”
~ Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass
(Illustration on photo of the Sundarbans)

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum♥️

The graphic is a few years old, made live during a support meeting with Red Cross Red Crescent colleagues. For always and in moments like these🕊️