“It occurred to me long ago that it is not older people that confer elder status upon each other. Elderhood is fundamentally recognized by the people who seek it, not the people who seek to be it. It is in the wheelhouse of young people to craft elders in their midst by their willingness to seek them out.”

“It’s only with pacifism that you have this belief that we have to respond only using nonviolence. They’ll present it as politically practical. Of course, there are times when you just can’t use a militant force to carry out something. That’s why you have a diversity of tactics.”