March 15 [2019] taught me how to read the world:
I invite people to consider one thing: that violence rarely appears without warning. It whispers first – in speeches, in comment sections, in policies that quietly divide people into “us” and “them”. When we ignore it long enough, it shouts. …
remembrance is not only about looking backward. It is about learning how to see the present clearly – everywhere. It is recognising the sound of hatred before it grows loud enough to become another memorial– whether it arises here, or elsewhere.
- Sara Qasem