The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

- Alice Walker

So let me tell you: I intend to protect my home. Praying -- not a curse -- only the hope that my courage will not fail my love. But if by some miracle, and all our struggle, the Earth is spared, only justice to every living thing (and everything is alive) will save humankind.  

- Alice Walker, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in aTime of Fear

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."
-- Alice Walker