Some Quotes from the Left

The most terribly destructive idea on the left is the idea that we're
special, that we're different. We're not- everybody rebels in some
way. Our problem is to recognize rebellion and find a way of touching
it. The most profound challenge of the Zapatistas is when they say,"
We are perfectly ordinary people, and therefore rebels." That is
perhaps the most important thing- To understand the everyday nature of
revolution.

Theodore Roszak, in "The Voice of the earth: An exploration of
Ecopyschology (1992), implores the environmental movement to "Draw up
a psychological-impact statement." He asks: "Are dread and desperation
the only motivations we have to play upon? What are we connecting
within people that is generous, joyous, freely given, and perhaps
heroic? If cound ecology comes to stop asking us to be the animal we
are, even if it is for our own good, it will not win many converts"
(Roszak 1992, p. 38)"