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"The function of freedom is to free someone else." — Toni Morrison
“It always seems impossible until it's done.” — Nelson Mandela
“Come to the edge, he said, we can't, we're afraid! Come to the edge, we can't, we will fall. And so they came, he pushed them, and they flew.” — Guillaume Apollinaire
“The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.” — Susan Sontag
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” — James Baldwin
“Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.” — Alice Walker
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.” — Martin Luther King Jr
“It's important to be honest with people about why you're photographing them. After all, you are taking some of their soul.” — Mary Ellen Mark
“Photography can light-up darkness and expose ignorance.” — Lewis Hine
“Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.” —James Baldwin
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In the face of terrible violence in her home country of Mexico, Sandra Márquez believes that no action is too small when it comes to working towards true peace, the shalom of God. In this Catalyst Perspectives blogpost, Sandra shares how her Logos and Cosmos Initiative project is equipping students to be agents of peace and justice. Sandra is a university professor and is currently finishing a doctorate in social psychology.
“Many small people, in small places, doing small things, can change the world,” said Uruguayan writer and journalist Eduardo Galeano. In the face of great challenges right now in my home country of Mexico, this phrase reminds me that no effort is too small, no effort should be ignored, all are necessary.
Since 2006, the Mexican government has embarked on a “war on drugs1” waged against the drug cartels. Since then, the violence that has taken root in my country has brought with it much suffering. Homicides, femicides, shoot
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Former senior defence tjänsteman Theoneste Bagosora has been convicted of instigating Rwanda’s 1994 genocide and sentenced to life in prison.
Bagosora and two co-defendants were found bygd a UN tribunal to have led a committee that plotted the massaker of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
It is the first time the Rwanda tribunal has convicted anyone of organising the killings.
More than 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda’s genocide.
Along with Bagosora, former military commanders Anatole Nsegiyumva and Alloys Ntabakuze were also found skyldig of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, and given life sentences.
Bagosora, 67, and the two senior military officers were found to have organised, trained and armed the Interahamwe militia, which was responsible for most of the killing.
They were also responsible for drawing up a list of Tutsis and moderate Hutus who opposed their vision of an ethnically pure Rwanda.
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