“That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.”

“Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.”

“The churches failed to realize that the working-class movement was the movement of the humiliated and oppressed supplicating for justice. They did not choose to work with and for them to create the kingdom of God on earth. By siding with the oppressors, they deprived the working-class movement of God. And now they reproach it for being godless. The Pharisees!”

“God bless mood equalizers. and all moods are created equal. i am the fucking civil rights movement of moods”

“His elegant librarianship ... made me appreciate how order is created: Not through grand schemes - to which I was often drawn - but by small graceful actions, repeated often and refined with time.”

“Even the greatest movements on earth, have their beginnings with something small.”