“So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to life, a transmigrating mass; How the same organs, which to-day compose The poisonous henbane, or the fragrant rose, May with to-morrow's sun new forms compile, Frown in the Hero, in the Beauty smile. Whence drew the enlighten'd Sage the moral plan, That man should ever be the friend of man; Should eye with tenderness all living forms, His brother-emmets, and his sister-worms.” MenShouldMayEyeFormScienceMoralSunPlansYouthTaughtBrotherHeroMassRoseTemplesAtomsOrgansTendernessSageWormsRestlessEnlighteningMorrowPoisonousScientific Truth Author:Erasmus Darwin
“The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.” MenFeelsTwoDifferentSelfBodyGamesPartyTeamSelf EsteemYouthEmotionalSourceMassOppositesIndependenceWesternMalesPartnersSurrenderSelf WorthEsteemCorporationsManhoodEmphasisConquestAbsentTrickySense Of SelfTerrainSave A Life Book:The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide Source: The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide
“In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.” MeanEndsUseDreamWould BeLeftNationsVisionYouthHigherOne DayMassMereChiefsManagersIndianAmerican DreamRhetoricPromotingScholarshipHigher EducationImplicitElitist Author:William A. Henry III
“Development has to result in jobs. What we need is not just more production, but mass production and production by masses.” NeedsJobsResultsYouthDevelopmentMassIndiaProductionsMass Production Author:Narendra Modi
“The Sixties was a perfect storm of disaffection with political leaders trying to pass off the same old platitudes to maintain the status quo and an unexpected courageousness in the masses of youth. Nothing on this scale had ever happened before in U.S. history and it hasn't happened since.” TryingPoliticalPerfectLeaderHappenedYouthMassStormScalesUnexpectedSixtyStatus QuoPolitical LeadersPlatitudesPerfect Storm Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“There is a tremendous amount of confusion and denial that exists about mass incarceration today, and that is the biggest barrier to movement building. As long as we remain in denial about this system, movement building will be impossible. Exposing youth in classrooms to the truth about this system and developing their critical capacities will, I believe, open the door to meaningful engagement and collective, inspired action.” BelieveLongTodayActionI BelieveImpossibleDoorsMovementYouthBuildingAmountMassCapacityInspiredCriticalMeaningfulConfusionDevelopingDenialCollectivesBarriersEngagementClassroomExposingIncarcerationMass Incarceration Author:Michelle Alexander