Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love.
Interpretation
Inaction in the face of injustice weakens our ability to stand up for ourselves and others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of taking action against injustice. By choosing to remain passive when witnessing wrongdoing, we not only allow the injustice to persist but also dull our own sense of justice and deprive ourselves of the ability to stand up for what is right, ultimately impacting our loved ones as well.
In practice
In a speech at a civil rights rally.
The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency, because if the power is abused, the result can be so enormous. On the other hand, those people who do not have power, we mustn't reduce their power even more by making them yet more transparent.
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.
You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.
The internet, our greatest tool of emancipation, has been transformed into the most dangerous facilitator of totalitarianism we have ever seen. The internet is a threat to human civilization.
God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash _x000D_ a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past
As women and as lawyers, we must never again shy from raising our voices against sexual harassment.
If parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.
You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution.
I suffered from post-natal depression after Rowan was born. I had a healthy, beautiful baby girl and I couldn't look at her. I couldn't hold her, smile at her. All I wanted was to disappear and die.
Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.
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