I think leaders are incapable of the strength that passive resistance entails.
We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.
Parenting as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power entails lower status less power and less control of resources than paid work.
Freedom of conscience entails more dangers than authority and despotism.
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.
Judged by the law of England I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life.
When I was younger my whole sense of self-worth was based on whether or not I was working which was awful. And I had a baby at 20 years old so it wasn't just about me. At around the age of 30 there was a stretch where I wasn't working - certainly not on anything I liked anyway - and I started to do other things.