"Often people who already had an interest in human rights work. What I did notice with all of them, even the people who professed to be interested in human rights, was that activism was somewhat a concept in their mind - a symbolic flag on the quad or something to show how many people were starving in the world. But once they saw their efforts connected to a person, I did see a change."
Source : Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.793, Random House
Source : Opening sentence of his "underground colloquium" in March 1983, as quoted by Nicolas Gisin in "Quantum [un]speakables: from Bell to quantum information", p. 199, 2002.