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Quote on Acting in Situations of Injustice and How Silence Is As Bad As Injustice Itself

    “If you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”

    Desmond Tutu

    Beyond the Quote (149/365)

    Love is as love does; Hate is as hate does; Indifference doesn’t do. Both hate and love do; care is involved.  In the case of love, we care for ourselves and others and so we express it in the form of positive, constructive, kind, mindful actions.  Love is not something that can be expressed through intention only.

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      “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ~ Elie Wiesel

        “Victims [of bullying] say that when they’re taunted and demeaned and no one comes to their defense, they start to believe they deserve it.  They start to judge themselves and to think that they are inferior.” ~ Carol Dweck, Mindset

        Caged Bird

          A free bird leaps
          on the back of the wind
          and floats downstream
          till the current ends
          and dips his wing
          in the orange sun rays
          and dares to claim the sky.

          But a bird that stalks
          down his narrow cage
          can seldom see through
          his bars of rage
          his wings are clipped and
          his feet are tied
          so he opens his throat to sing.

          The caged bird sings
          with a fearful trill
          of things unknown
          but longed for still
          and his tune is heard
          on the distant hill
          for the caged bird
          sings of freedom.

          ~ Maya Angelou

            “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.