The Power of the Pen
When in the course of human events, the oppressed find it necessary to dissolve the political and psychological bonds which have joined them to the oppressor, revolutionaries have a choice to pick up either a pen or a gun. The true revolutionaries pick up a pen because they realize that violence truly begets violence and that any solution that is brought about by bloodshed will only be temporary; the powerful will change positions and the gorillas are in charge again.
[Geoffrey Philip, "Happy Birthday Sam Selvon", May 20 2006]
That paragraph hit me for six.
Tags: change, culture, geoffrey-Philip, politics, revolution, Samuel-Selvon
