“Disruption is no longer a single or recurring event, but a steady state expanding its impact.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“But if the system is the problem, the truth is that there will not be satisfactory answers in the here and now for lots of people.
That is one of the (painful) ways you know that the problem is systemic.
Which means that either you build forward no matter what, or you lose. Period.”
Source: What Then Must We Do?: Straight Talk about the Next American Revolution
“It is not until you consciously decide to prioritize the elimination of stagnant, exclusive culture that your company will be in a position to make the systemic changes needed to both address and eventually abolish disparities.”
Source: Confessions From Your Token Black Colleague: True Stories & Candid Conversations About Equity & Inclusion In The Workplace
“Systemic change is a slow and tedious process,
It doesn't happen overnight by vandalizing society.
If vandalism and activism were one and the same,
Our jungly ancestors would've been the ideal humanity.”
Source: Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence
“When our mental functioning is whittling away and our mind becomes a lame duck, perception does not form the context anymore and all connections on the social chessboard are conked out. Only patience and endurance may draw us out of the quagmire of numbness and allow us to tear open the cloudy screen that is hiding our points of ‘interest’ and ‘attention’, so long as we focus on the ‘singular moments’ and the ‘appealing details’ in our life. Awareness can help us shape a comprehensive picture for a functional future. ("Lost the global story.")”
“The more we are willing to separate from distraction and step into the open arms of boredom, the more writing will get on the page.”
Source: The Getaway Car: A Practical Memoir About Writing and Life
“Reconciliation requires systemic change. it is not about rote land acknowledgement, apologies, and carefully staged public relations events designed to give the impression of a sincere effort.”
Source: Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
“Apologies must go hand in hand with substantive, systemic change, which, in turn, will support meaningful reconciliation.”
Source: Truth Telling: Seven Conversations about Indigenous Life in Canada
“The World does not need antidepressants, the World needs anti-oppressors...”
“For an ideology differs from a simple opinion in that it claims to possess either the key to history, or the solution for all the "riddles of the universe," or the intimate knowledge of the hidden universal laws which are supposed to rule nature and man. Few ideologies have won enough prominence to survive the hard competitive struggle of persuasion, and only two have come out on top and essentially defeated all others: the ideology which interprets history as an economic struggle of classes, and the other that interprets history as a natural fight of races. The appeal of both to large masses was so strong that they were able to enlist state support and establish themselves as official national doctrines. But far beyond the boundaries within which race-thinking and class-thinking have developed into obligatory patterns of thought, free public opinion has adopted them to such an extent that not only intellectuals but great masses of people will no longer accept a presentation of past or present facts that is not in agreement with either of these views.”
Source: The Origins of Totalitarianism