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“The book is called “Be the Revolution” because so often we think about the doingness of it and just the tactics, just the strategy. We get bogged down in these things. It’s also about our beingness. And that’s the one thing that has exuded from everyone that I interviewed about Tim [Progressive Democrats for America co-founder Tim Carpenter] is that it was his beingness. His being was infectious and we get to think about how we are being with each other. And whether or not you like or agree with him or … Dr. West said to me one time … I asked him, “How do we actually build a successful movement?” And he said, “What we need are spiritual exemplars who are willing to fight and die for one another as we were during the civil rights movement. And that is that beingness, the vision, the solidarity and the commitment to one another. But moreover it is about love. This is about love. And I don’t mean that in a pedantic, you know, trite way. I mean that in the big “L” sense. This is love for each other, love for humanity, love for children, love for the beautiful planet and the fact that we all deserve the dignity to live, you know, to live with dignity, to have health care, to not die in stupid wars for oil companies and weapons manufacturers and political hegemony.”

–Jay Ponti, author of “Be The Revolution: How Occupy Wall Street and the Bernie Sanders Movement Reshaped American Politics”