" I’m saying we have to have some communality. And we have to have discipline. That’s not the same as saying everyone has to look alike, act alike, think alike. Without community and discipline we’ll stay ineffective fragments or worse, we’ll be obliterated.” “I’m not a political person. All I want is to be left alone to do my work.” “You damn sight better become a political person. Things are so bad no one can afford to sit on the sidelines. "

― Rita Mae Brown , In Her Day