tentacular:

We agreed: it seems improbable that after years, decades, of politics, action, research, we can still be so easily shocked. You know it’s not uncommon to hear activists, while discussing quotidian barbarities - the system’s incredible & everyday sadisms - confessing, almost…

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dangerousandsweet:

Be confident. Too many days are wasted comparing ourselves to others and wishing to be something we aren’t. Everybody has their own strengths and weaknesses, and it is only when you accept everything you are, and aren’t, that you will truly succeed.

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firsttimeuser:

Madurai Murugan, India, Tamil Hindu, 1927

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a4rizm:

La politique est une expérimentation active, parce qu’on ne sait pas d’avance comment une ligne va tourner. Faire passer la ligne, dit le comptable : mais justement on peut la faire passer n’importe où.

Gilles Deleuze, Claire Parnet, Dialogues, Flammarion, 1996, pp. 165-166.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

— Gloria Naylor, Novelist and educator, 1950

Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of justice.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Arabic lyrics:
Kolena. Eid wahda. Wo talabna. Haga wahda

Erhal! Erhal! Erhal!Erhal!

Yasqot yasqot Hosni Mubarak. Yasqot yasqot Hosni Mubarak.
Elsha’ab. Yoreed. Esqat elnezam. Howwa yemshy. Mosh hanemshy

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Egyptian Revolution: The World Calls for Peace

Producer/Director/Writer:Tamer Shaaban

The world has heard Egypt’s call for help, and now we are responding. We need our nations to respond equally. Today, it doesn’t matter what race, ethnicity, gender, or religion you are. Today we are all Egyptian, today we are all human beings. The Egyptian people have fought for their freedom but their government won’t set them free. This video is a testament that we are all people fighting for a free Egypt and a free world. Today we make our voice heard. Individually we’re a whisper, Together we’re deafening. We call for peace and ask our leaders to do the same.