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Adults who have preserved their innocence also surrender, like the child, to the impulse of nature or destiny without a thought to become somebody or to impress others. But, unlike the child, they rely, not on instinct but on ceaseless awareness of everything in them and around them. That awareness shields them from evil and brings about the growth that was intended for them by nature, not designed by their ambitious egos.
Stop Fixing Yourself
Anthony de Mello
Public services are engaged in the remaking of the public domain through practices of design, the policing of space, and the governance of public interactions. They deploy new information technologies as ways of engaging in dialogue with particular publics as well as a means of re-engineering systems of service delivery.
Publics, Politics and Power
Janet Newman and John Clarke
King pursued a remarkable campaign that included the recruitment of gang members, with whom he engaged on the streets of Chicago and invited into his own home to debate pressing social issues as well as the politics of nonviolence. As King made clear, __nonviolent action is not passive and submissive but militant and coercive.__ “Nonviolence must be adapted to urban conditions and urban moods,” King avowed. “We must fashion the new tactics which do not count on government goodwill, but instead serve to compel unwilling authorities to yield to the mandates of justice.”