“One thing I hate most in this world, next to arrogance, is hypocrisy. Privileged teenagers hysterically yelling about climate action with no tangible contribution on their part - privileged celebrities flying in private jets, sipping fine wine, while barking about equal pay in a room full of other privileged celebrities - all these ain't activism, it's entitled lunacy. When you're struggling with your last ounce of strength to put food on the table, to keep a roof over your family, and still have some generosity left for your neighbors, that's the highest form of human rights struggle there is.
The world of justice looks very different depending on which side of disparity you belong to. For the everyday commoner, struggle for human rights is the natural way of life, whereas for privileged egomaniacs, activism is a publicity stunt. Send these entitled bunch of buffoons to labor in the streets of the developing parts of the world, and all their activism will fly out the window.
It's this simple. Before you start shouting about rights, equality and justice, have the decency and common sense to step out of the lap of privilege and luxury. Remember, there is no difference between a barking dog with golden platter and barking activist with a silver spoon. Struggle in the streets, struggle in the beaches, only then you shall know, what suits the humans, what suits the leeches.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“There is no difference between a barking dog with golden platter and barking activist with a silver spoon.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“For privileged egomaniacs, activism is a publicity stunt.”
Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth
“Yelling about justice without using common sense is just as useless as keeping quiet.”
Source: Insan Himalayanoğlu: It's Time to Defect
“She would learn as much as she could and do whatever she could to dismantle all that she knew to be broken, brick by brick, by. hand if she had to. She would keep the bricks, though. She would use them to build something new.”
Source: True Biz
“Hai una routine, un programma orario per ogni parte della vita. Ne hai uno anche per il pensiero? Perché non dici di no? Perché non riesci nemmeno a pensare di dire di no?”
Source: Riot days. Una prigionia politica nella Russia di Putin
“I had turned on myself. Once I heard it out loud with such venom, I became suddenly very sorry. And a realisation came awake in me: My body was not the bondage […] We are a people whose flesh grows back. It does not die quietly. We must remember this, even in the most painful conditions of our healing.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“The question of calling is not primarily a question of what we might become, but a question of what is already true—not least of which is what is true about the self. Ask me what I want to be, but not before you ask me who I want to be. Ask me who I want to be, but not before you ask me the more searing question of who I am.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“We were never meant to dismember our selfhoods. My face is my soul is my blood is my glory. When we neglect the physical, it inevitably suffocates the image of a God who ate, slept, cried, bled, grew, and healed.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us
“Nothing is ever truly ordinary […] Protect the truest things about you and it will become easier to hear the truth everyplace else.”
Source: This Here Flesh: Spirituality, Liberation, and the Stories That Make Us