“It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them; and it is by insisting on prising things apart that we have liberated ourselves from them”

“We have only one real shot at liberation, and that is to emancipate ourselves from within”

“Sometimes, things fall apart...so we can put them together in a new way. It is time to make things right.”

“This was weird. The thing that could have driven two friends instantly apart was actually drawing them closer together.”

“another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.”

“The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life”