Jane Fonda
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And so I called a woman who at the time was the director of Greenpeace USA, Annie Leonard.
I said, I want to come to D.C.
and make a difference.
I want to raise a ruckus.
What can I do?
And together with her, we created Fire Drill Fridays.
And the minute I did that,
My depression lifted.
And then I heard Greta Thunberg say, you know, everybody goes looking for hope.
Look for action.
And hope will come.
Hope is very different than optimism.
You know, optimism is everything's going to be fine and you don't do anything about it.
Hope is a muscle.
Hope is when you fight.
Hope can be rage-filled, breaking down the door with a battering ram.
Vaclav Havel was in prison in 1984, 85, by the communists in Czechoslovakia.
He was the famous playwright.
Czech playwright.
Yeah.