Sublime

The bias I wish to point out is that Gandhi’s fame score seems to get perceptually added to his justly accumulated altruism score. When you think about nonviolence, you think of Gandhi—not an anonymous protestor in one of Gandhi’s marches who faced down riot clubs and guns, and got beaten, and had to be taken to the hospital, and walked with a limp

Annie Leonard, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA since 2014, is among those taking note and reforming the organisation she leads in response: she quickly realised that the organisation’s model was ‘allowing people to outsource their sense of agency; outsource their civic engagement to us. We were saying: give us 20 bucks a month to become a “mem

nineteenth-century abolitionist Lysander Spooner, whose 1869 essay “The Constitution of No Authority”

In Hamer’s vision, it was the onus of all Americans committed to social justice to address the unfinished work of democracy. “We need people to work for freedom, now! Not freedom tomorrow, but we want freedom now,” she declared.101 And