Somos activistas
The Association for Development, Education, Leadership, Advocacy and Service (ADELAS)/The Border Campaign is comprised of long-time environmental justice (EJ) activist, Domingo Gonzalez, and myself, a volunteer and graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The following quotes are inspirational to the work of the EJ activist:
“There are many reasons for why a man does what he does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.”
-Cesar Chavez
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
- Stephen J Gould
“The U.S.-Mexico border es una herida abieta [is an open wound] where the Third World grates against the First and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country – a border culture.”
-Anzaldua
“What we call man’s power over nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with nature as its instrument.”
- C.S. Lewis
“The most important thing to appreciate about the thinking of whites on race, we now believe, is that many of them do not very often think about it at all…. They neither suffer directly from the problem of racial inequality, nor see themselves as directly responsible for it. The problem of race is, like many other problems of public policy, a secondary concern in the daily lives of whites and only of occasional interest to them.”
-Paul M. Sniderman and Thomas Piazza, “The Scar of Race”
“Anyone,” he says, “who’s living a dreary middle-class existence wondering about his or her purpose in life ought to come down here and work with people who have nothing and find out what life is about.”
There–he’s let the secret out. What sustains many activists in these mythic battles against poverty and corporate neglect and environmental decay is not only altruism or the pursuit of ideology. Sometimes it is merely knowing that a good and just fight cleanses the mind and simplifies one’s own internal conflicts. Perhaps, more than anything, it is about enlightenment.
-Sierra Magazine article quoting Domingo Gonzalez
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