Today's Quotes

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."

-Paulo Freire, author of 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'


"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

-Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the South African Nobel Peace Prize winner and champion of human rights against apartied.



Here is a link to an interview with Archbishop Desmond Tutu which we watched earlier this week on CNN's Talk Asia. It was quite good.