All that you touch You Change. All that you Change Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change. God Is Change. - Octavia E. Butler

Are you Earthseed?
Do you believe?
Belief will not save you.
Only actions
Guided and shaped
By belief and knowledge
Will save you.
Belief
Initiates and guides action—
Or it does nothing.

I got up to leave. There was nothing more to be said. He had asked for what he knew I could not give, and I had refused.

No one thought about what kind of society we were building with such stupid decisions. People who could afford to educate their children in private schools were glad to see the government finally stop wasting their tax money, educating other people’s children. They seemed to think they lived on Mars. They imagined that a country filled with poor, uneducated, unemployable people somehow wouldn’t hurt them!