Through this journal, we are inviting you into a new way of thinking and doing, one which begins with questioning everything we take for granted.
In particular, how we contribute – or think we contribute – to a better world. We will not have all the answers, but we want to ask better questions.
“The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of, is the price we pay for the fact that we live our lives not by ourselves but among our fellow men, and that the faculty of action, which, after all, is the political faculty par excellence, can be actualized only as one of the many and manifold forces of human community.” — Hannah Arendt
“The vicarious responsibility for things we have not done, this taking upon ourselves the consequences for things we are entirely innocent of, is the price we pay for the fact that we live our lives not by ourselves but among our fellow men, and that the faculty of action, which, after all, is the political faculty par excellence, can be actualized only as one of the many and manifold forces of human community.” — Hannah Arendt
“Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.” ― John Berger
“Vocabulary is not genocidal. Annihilation is.” — Mohammed El Kurd
“Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.” ― James Baldwin
“Language is never sufficient. There is not enough of it to make a true mirror of living. The soothing or afflictive effect of stories we tell is not in whether we select the right words, but in our proximity to what the right words might be. This is not some abstraction, but a very real expression of power — the privilege of describing a thing vaguely, incompletely, dishonestly, is inseparable from the privilege of looking away.” — Omar El Akkad
by Fady Joudah