Quote from Manit Sriwanichpoom on seeing Mother Hai calmly reading a Dharma book during a protest outside Government House. (She had spent twenty years peacefully struggling to be compensated for the loss of her house and farmland under the waters of the Huay Laha Dam.)

"I wondered: Are Buddhist books meant only for consoling those who suffer? What of the people who cause their problems; what do such people read?"