Devotion to the small is the spiritual core of political acts. As a devotion, it takes note of the power of the small and observes its potential for generating consequence. That is what makes it political.
The small, it might be said, spins the threads that weave the net that catches the world. This world-net we cast, almost unwittingly, from our gathering together of individual acts, carries a particular value.
— Kim Chernin, In My Father's Garden