That’s the one I came here to post :)

The #congresswoman who stood her ground in the face of censure, of constant vitriol, of her own colleagues’ indifference. The protesters who gave up their #privilege, their jobs, who risked something, to speak out.

-Omar El Akkad: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

The American doctors and nurses who risked their lives to go treat the wounded in the middle of a killing field. The puppet-maker who, injured and driven from his home, kept making dolls to entertain the children…

-Omar El Akkad: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

And every time they hear a politician profess the supremacy of international law, of human rights, of equality for all, they will hear only the sounds of #screaming.

-Omar El Akkad: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

The soldier who drove the tank over the handcuffed body, who heard the sound and felt the rupture, might come home to a high school sweetheart and get down on one knee and might have children of his own one day.

-Omar El Akkad: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

The patrol that opened fire on the starving civilians might meet up every now and then for karaoke nights, might celebrate what they did when it is still acceptable, but over the years bond over a shared silence thicker than blood

-Omar El Akkad: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

…as though no one had screamed warnings at the top of their lungs back when there was time to do something.

-Omar El Akkad: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

The truth and reconciliation committees are coming. The land acknowledgments are coming. The very sorry descendants are coming.

-Omar El Akkad: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Whoever subscribes to this idea should at least have the #spine to embrace it. To look upon the body of the little girl hanging from the wall, limbs severed by the force of the blast and say: I’m fine with this, I am this. At least there’d be some measure of #honesty in it.

-Omar El Akkad: One Day,