2. Social Conscience: Quotes
Create a visual representation of a quote taken from the list dealing
with significant issues of identity, tolerance, responsibility .
“You must be the change you
wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
STUDENT SAMPLES
For
Art and Facing History workshop,
June 2013
3. Quotes…
“Each time a man stands up for an
ideal, or acts to improve the lot of
others, or strikes out against injustice,
he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”
Robert F. Kennedy
“What was said long ago is true: Nations are
not made of oak and rock, but of men, and,
as the men are, so will the nations be.”
Milton Mayer
4. Partial Quote List
• “All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they.” Rudyard Kipling
• “The shadowy figures that look out at us from the tarnished mirror of history are—in
the final analysis—ourselves.” Detlev J.K. Peukert
• “The world is too dangerous to live in—not because of the people who do evil, but
because of the people who sit and let it happen.” Albert Einstein
• “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage,
need not be lived again.” Maya Angelou
• “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or
strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.” Robert F. Kennedy
• “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the
world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead
• “Our indifference to evil makes us partners in the crime.” Elie Wiesel
• “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Mahatma Gandhi
• “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” Heinrich
Heine
5. Quotes…
“All the people like us are we, and
everyone else is they.”
Rudyard Kipling
“History, despite its wrenching
pain, cannot be unlived, but if
faced with courage, need not be
lived again.”
Maya Angelou
6. Quotes…
“The shadowy faces that look out at us
from the tarnished mirror of history
are-in the final analysis-ourselves.”
Detley J.K. Peukert
8. Facing History student
Life used to be so easy. There always
seemed to be an answer to everything.
Everything fit into place, getting up at
seven o’clock, going to school at eight,
coming home at four, doing homework at
eight, and finally going to bed at eleven. In
my tightly scheduled life I left no time to
reflect. In these past four months,
however, I’ve been forced to think.
Art and Facing History workshop,
June 2013
