"The Revolution"

Well, I've wanted to make this more of a place to share my life, not just photography. But of course I want to incorporate some kind of visual imagery because I don't want you to get bored. Today I finished "The Revolution." Its a book about the 12 most pressing social justice issues. Clean water. Gang violence. Women's rights. Fair trade. Hunger. HIV/AIDS. Capital punishment. War and peace. Torture. The environment. Human trafficking. Poverty.It does not just talk about them, however. It also gives ways to get involved in making positive, lasting change. It is a great book for those who are wanting/looking for ways to get involved but don't know where to start. Each issue is a different chapter is a different essay by a different author. All of the authors have some kind of involvement in the issue they are writing about.
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Here are some great quotes throughout the book:
"A pessimist, they say, sees a glass of water as being half empty; An optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty."
-G. Donald Gale

"Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead."
-Saint John Chrysostom

"Every human being is worth more than the worst thing they've done. All life has dignity- guilty life too."
-Sister Helen Prejean

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky

"If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito."
-Betty Reese