“I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy.” MenLooksI CanRealEndsMomentsMillionsFantasyImagineGenerationsTerribleDramaHorrorEssentialsBenefitsInjusticeTrialsCrueltyRevolutionarySincerelyFuture GenerationUtopiaMassacresDeportation Book:The World's Last Night: And Other Essays Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays
“We've all had some level of injustice, whether 20 years in prison, or 20 minutes sitting in your car waiting for a police officer to determine your future. Or even a few moments in an elevator with some woman clutching her purse thinking you're going to rob her ¾ regardless of celebrity, that has happened to me.” ThinkingYearsMomentsWaitingLevelsHappenedMinutesCarSittingPolicePrisonInjusticeDetermineOur FutureOfficersYour FuturePursesPolice OfficerElevators Author:Denzel Washington
“I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.” PeopleIfsThinkingMomentsHelpingHeardDyingInjusticeHelping OthersHelping Other People Book:The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920 Source: The letters of Olive Schreiner, 1876-1920