Mike Zablotny

“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Counterfeit freedom brings only apathy. True freedom brings responsibility.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Esperanza Impossible: 100 Sonnets of Ethics, Engineering & Existence

“The kindness of Canadians when they see someone with a canoe is really a wonderful thing”
― Adam Shoalts, Where the Falcon Flies: A 3,400 Kilometre Odyssey From My Doorstep to the Arctic

“The state is not our ally. White feminism is not our ally either, because discussing violence against women without discussing gender violence within a colonial context has no meaning for me. Gender violence and murdered and missing indigenous women are a symptom of settler colonialism, white supremacy, and genocide. They are symptoms of the dispossession of indigenous peoples from our territories.”
― Cindy Barukh Milstein, Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism