Quotes of the week

"I was going to die, if not sooner then later, whether or not I had ever spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you." --Audre Lorde

"A politics that does not go beyond itself to ethics is an irresponsible politics, irresponsible to others. But the same is true of an ethics that does not want to be political, that cannot or will not recognize the pressure to be effective in the world." --Chris Anderson-Irwin