I think the importance of doing activist work is precisely because it allows you to give back and to consider yourself not as a single individual who may have achieved whatever but to be a part of an ongoing historical movement.
“Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.”
“I had two things I could do: I could run over you, and I could put a good stiff arm on you. That was about it.”