I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
When you look across this country, and when you see peoples’ lives held back by discrimination and poverty… when you see injustice and inequality. He said, you should be the last people to accept things as they are.
I have a dream that one day Mississippi, a state weltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
But by most measures, we have more knowledge and more resources now than at any other point in history, and still injustice abounds and challenges persist.
Ananyo Bhattacharya, a science journalist formerly at The Economist, sets out to correct that injustice, and so fill a yawning gap in the history of science.
Over the years, on too many occasions to count, I saw my father tear stories out of the newspaper about people whom he had never met, who were facing some injustice or hardship.
I think whether we're talking about gender inequality or racism or queer rights or indigenous rights or animal rights, we're talking about the fight against injustice.
Courage is hard and it's hard to sustain, but we see it everywhere, steady in the face of war and injustice, sickness and loss, in stories of perseverance for a greater purpose.