Individual Activism - by Anthony Marr

At the 2009 AR Conference, one of Anthony Marr's speeches was on
Individual Activism



Someone asked Anthony to put his points in writing. Here are 7 points he made today:

1. The Power of One: One activist standing in the rain for 10 days is more powerful than 100 activists holding a one-hour protest in the sun.

2. Where you can lead: If you have no leadership quality, you would not be an activist. There is one thing among the millions that people can do in which you are the best. What is it?

3. Go where no one has gone before: Do what no one has done before. Media will cover you if you do something that has never been done there before, bearing in mind that something new anywhere is new only once.

4. Go where angels fear to tread: Do what no one dares to do - physically and spiritually. You need not be an outlaw to be brave. You can work within the law to change the law. Treat restrictions as challenges to your ingenuity.

5. Choose your enemy with compassion: Do it for justice, not for vengeance, and certainly not out of cruelty on our part.

6. Live for your cause. Be its instrument on Earth: You will live on in the difference that you will have made.

7. Save the Earth for her own sake, and our children and all creatures, for their own sake: An individual human has the potential to be an individual planet-saver.

"The rest is all up to you."

See Anthony Marr's speech in video:

AR2009-07-17 Anthony Marr - Individual Activism

Anthony Marr | MySpace Video

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