Tuesday 3 June 2008

Neutrality and Silence.

Neutrality is a position. Staying silent is not staying neutral. You cannot abstain from a choice, you cannot ignore some choices, even a postponement of the decision is a decision and a choice itself. You can support the positive, you can fight the negative, but by not supporting the positive you by default support the negative, and therefore a part of it.

"If anyone of you sees something objectionable, he should change it with his hand, but if he cannot, he should change it with his tongue, and if he cannot he should do it in his heart, that being the weakest form of faith." - Muhammad (s)

"Your silence will not protect you" - Audre Lorde

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