1) "Power always depends for its strength and existence upon a replenishment of its sources by the cooperation of numerous institutions and people – cooperation that does not have to continue." —Gene Sharp, theorist of non-violent resistance & founder of the Albert Einstein Institute

2) “What are the consequences when people refuse their roles and become disruptive? Perhaps disruption is not only born of desperation but is in fact a source of power.” —Frances Fox Piven, political scientist, sociologist & activist

3) “Power compounds by making the already powerful even more powerful, and it justifies itself as people in power find ways of making arguments to sustain and legitimize their power. Those two factors alone could create a doom-loop of power becoming increasingly concentrated, but what saves us is that power is also infinite. Power is something that any one of us can create.” —Eric Liu, founder of Citizen University

4) “If standards for feminism are created by those who have already ascended economic hierarchies and are attempting to make the last climb to the top, how is this relevant to women who are at the very bottom? Revolutionary hope resides precisely among those women who have been abandoned by history and who are now standing up and making their demands heard. [...] When they rise, the whole world will rise with them.” —Angela Davis, political activist, writer and scholar

5) “The left knows how to propagate guilt and conduct a witch hunt, but it doesn’t know how to make converts.” —Mark Fisher, cultural critic

6) “When citizens of nominally democratic governments protest in the streets they are performing the foundational myth of democracy: the faith that the people possess ultimate sovereignty over their governments.

[T]he people’s sovereignty is dead and every protest is a hopeless struggle to revive the corpse. [...] If activism is to stay relevant, we must apply our techniques of protest to either winning wars or winning elections.” —Micah White, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street

7) "Social justice movements need to take responsibility for failing to emphasize the connection and linkage between all of our movements. Categories can be the enemies of connection. We must get past that. We must go from dependence to independence to interdependence." —Gloria Steinem, journalist & feminist

8) “The story is never told, or it is told by everyone but us. In Ferguson we became unerased, and that was solely because of social media. We didn’t invent resistance, we didn’t discover injustice. The only thing that is different about this movement is our ability to story tell it and use the power of storytelling as actual power.” —DeRay Mckesson, Black Lives Matter activist

9) “Nowadays, a network of tweets can unleash a global awareness campaign. A Facebook page can become the hub of a massive mobilization...And this raises a question: As digital technology makes things easier for movements, why haven't successful outcomes become more likely as well?” —Zeynep Tufekci

10) “Social media has become a powerful way to express dissent, to disrupt and to organize. Digital activism, however, comes at a high price: The very tools we use for our cause can be – and have been – used to undermine us.” —Manal Al-Sharif, Saudi women’s rights activist

11) “I see protest as a genuine means of encouraging someone to feel the inconsistencies, the horror of the lives we are living. Social protest is saying that we do not have to live this way. If we feel deeply, and we encourage ourselves and others to feel deeply, we will find the germ of our answers to bring about change.” —Audre Lorde, black feminist poet

12) “There are so many examples where aesthetic force – more than rational argument alone – has been what has shifted and turned the tide in the face of massive injustice. So, I think of the arts as far more than just a respite from life, a kind of a luxury; I see it as a galvanic force that undergirds some of our most impactful changes and movements.” —Sarah Lewis, art historian