if you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it. you have to go wherever you need to go, and you have to be wherever you need to be, and place yourself there against the forces that would distort you and destroy you. i love the uprisings, i love the occupy movement, and i think the young people especially are doing something that is very natural. it is natural to want to have a future. it is very natural to want to live in peace and joy. what is lovely about this time is the awareness that is sweeping the planet. people are just waking up, every moment.

- alice walker | via azspot [emphasis mine]