From Students (2017)
"It's cool to be kind, but, not everybody is cool." Ali
“Go with your second thought.” Alliyah
“The rich-poor gap can’t ever be closed!” Kamryn
“community centres [help solve poverty and inequality]” Nur
“It’s like that Quebec neo-nazi Maxime Fiset who changed.” Katie
“It becomes normalized.” Nur
On Action:
"Without struggle, there can be no progress." Frederick Douglass
"Critical reflection is a form of action." Paulo Freire
"When spiders unit, they can tie down a lion." Ethiopian Proverb
"Change the way you see things, and the things you see will change."
"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable." Finley Peter Dunne
On Inaction:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmond Burke
“The price people pay for not concerning themselves with politics is to be governed by people worse than themselves.” Plato
“Only a crisis – actual or perceived – produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.” Milton Friedman
"The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Einstein
"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps perpetrate it." Martin Luther King Jr.
“If everybody would go home the situation could return to normal.” Governor Patterson on the Civil Rights Montgomery Riot, May 1961