Browsing the archives for the Observations category.
Campus, December 2009
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.”
– Arundhati Roy.
As the people’s revolution gains its first major reward in Egypt today by the resignation of the president Hosni Mubarak after 30 years of iron-fisted rule under emergency military laws, let’s hope that the benefits are enduring and sustainable, and that it leads to permanent victory for the people: human rights, real progress, reform, and justice. More importantly, let’s hope it spreads to other places on the continent where the citizens live in fear and poverty under unyielding despots.
