1) People become empowered when they are exposed to power. —Jeffrey J. Kripal

2) Prosecutors have amassed far more power than our system intended. Trials are all over TV and movies, but that's not the reality of the day-to-day in America. –Emily Bazelon

3) How do you make space for yourself when you live within power structures that attempt to force your complacency in that system? Traditionally, when it is a matter of two opposing truths, the person in power’s version will win. This must change. —Idra Novey

4) There’s a power in telling stories and a greater power in telling your story. —Alex Kotlowitz

5) Dieting can restrict our humanity and creativity. It exists to keep you in a restricted space in a oppressive power hierarchy. —Virgie Tovar

6) Public service means the delivery of power to others, so they have the opportunity to help themselves. Leaders have aggregated power without aggregating purpose to that power. —Stacey Abrams

7) The big revolutionary move is the idea of decentralization of power: Enable communities to do more; hold onto people in neighborhoods; decentralize funding. Get more resources to communities so they can monitor it themselves. —Raghuram Rajan

8) It's very common to overestimate the danger of speaking truth to power...ask the question, that's all I can say. —Anand Giridharadas

9) The American century has ended. We now live in an era of great power competition. —George Packer

10) Environmental injustice is when communities of color are disproportionately affected by climate change. We need to change the power structures that enable this. —Cheryl Johnson

11) The kinds of power structures that have been allowed to flourish in our world have put in jeopardy the future of humanity and our world. —Stephanie LeMenager

12) A world that runs on sun and wind won’t be utopian, but it will contain a new model for decentralized power. —Bill McKibben

13) I keep thinking about the campaigns we run and what we settle for. How can we set and hold a standard? What we need is revolution. How do we make it politically possible? —adrienne maree brown

14) The thought and questioning and deep engagement of writers is inherently threatening to a system trying to control discourse. —Jennifer Egan

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