"Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence and thereby eventually lose all ability to defend ourselves and those we love."

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Source : "Witnessing". Selected Correspondence, Julian Assange's old blog, IQ.org (via Archive.org), web.archive.org. January 3, 2007.

Julian Assange

#Character Quotes #Injustice Quotes #Ability Quotes

“Hearts are fragile things. That's why you have to be so careful.”
“American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.”
“Every idea has its time.”
“Once ESPN leaves you, and you don't have a foothold anywhere else, you're done. It's very hard to do anything else, because in some ways, they're the only game in town.”
“What permaculturists are doing is the most important activity that any group is doing on the planet. We don't know what details of a truly sustainable future are going to be like, but we need options, we need people experimenting in all kinds of ways and permaculturists are one of the critical gangs that are doing that.”
“I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.”
“No hours, nor amount of labor, nor amount of money would deter me from giving the best that there was in me.”
“Trying to say something is all you got in life.”

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