“If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.”
“Change is necessary and, deny it as we may, in the end change is always inevitable.”
“Who says we need the walls back up? You're roaches, we're Raid. We'll get rid of you eventually.”
“Change is inevitable, they say. Struggle is optional.”
“Pain is inevitable; lives come with pain. Suffering is not inevitable. If suffering is what happens when we struggle with our experience because of our inability to accept it, then suffering is an optional extra [p. 19].”
“... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.”