"Perhaps most significantly, we experienced Sept. 11 right as we were developing a political consciousness. I was a senior in college, poised to enter the real world with a sort of indestructible bravado on Sept. 10. On Sept. 11, everything I’d understood about my own safety, about the implications of America’s reputation throughout the world, about violence and poverty and extremism, was transformed."
- Courtney E. Martin, Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists (via)
