To be impartial... is indeed to have taken sides already... with the status quo.
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To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. — Desmond Tutu2
Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
The tendency to continue doing something simply because we have always done it is sometimes called the “status quo bias.
neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Silence isn’t neutrality; it is supporting the status-quo.
The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive.
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality
No reason to join a fight until you know what side you're on.
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.
The self-proclaimed advocate of impartiality does not want to commit himself to either course of action. If pushed toward one
camp, he seeks refuge in the other. Men always find it distasteful to admit that the “reasons” on both sides of a dispute are equally valid — which is to say that violence operates without reason.
Tragedy begins at that point where the illusion of impartiality, as well as the illusions of the adversaries, collapses.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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