“When I look inside and see that I am nothing, that is #wisdom.
When I look outside and see that I am everything, that is #love.”
― Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Affirmative action was never a complete answer in the drive towards a more just society. But for generations of students who had been systematically excluded from most of America’s key institutions—it gave us the chance to show we more than deserved a seat at the table.
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decision, it’s time to redouble our efforts.
If you're more riled up about the van Gogh than about starvation, displacement, extreme weather, melting glaciers, loss of biodiversity, flooding of coastal regions, ocean acidification, and the World we're leaving for our children, perhaps the activists are on to something.
Her mother was killed in #Iran protests. Standing over her grave, with her shaved her, holding her hair in her hand, not wearing compulsory hijab… This is how defiance looks like… Iranian women are making history.
#MahsaAmini