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Democracy and freedom applies to everyone, so ask, \"Why not me?\" and then have the strength to do something about it.",[18,25,26],{},"Creating a place for stepping out into action. Knowing you can walk along the edge that separates various difficult choices and consequences, then find new ideas or strategies for social change. Listening for other people to say, \"Oh, I never thought of that!\"",[10,28,30],{"id":29},"advice","Advice",[32,33,34],"p",{},"Find something that you're passionate about and start there, something that resonates about justice or fairness or equality.",[36,37,38],"blockquote",{},[32,39,40],{},"Being a social activist is a way of living every day, not something you do on the weekend. Social activism is a sense of knowing that every human being on the face of this earth has value and is equal and has a purpose in life. This is why when I hear people talking against abortions and gay rights, I think, \"Who gives you the right to decide that you have any more knowledge or you're better or any more equal than those people who are living their lives the way they want to live them?\"—the same thing applies to those who live in poverty or are subject to racism or sexism or ageism.",{"title":42,"searchDepth":43,"depth":43,"links":44},"",2,[45,46],{"id":12,"depth":43,"text":13},{"id":29,"depth":43,"text":30},"md",{},true,"\u002Fyvonne-atwell\u002Fcreating-change-skills-and-advice","\u002Factivists\u002Fyvonne-atwell\u002Fcreating-change-skills-and-advice",{"title":5,"description":42},"activists\u002Fyvonne-atwell\u002F03.creating-change-skills-and-advice","dnCJSsZSyW2UF38BcCEnm0fNXtXfbVgJwIk_UGwGUDY",{"id":56,"title":57,"body":58,"description":62,"extension":47,"links":94,"meta":104,"navigation":49,"oldPath":105,"path":106,"pictures":107,"portrait":108,"portraitAlt":109,"province":110,"quote":111,"sections":112,"seo":124,"stem":125,"summary":126,"__hash__":127},"activists\u002Factivists\u002Fyvonne-atwell\u002Findex.md","Yvonne Atwell",{"type":7,"value":59,"toc":92},[60,63,74,83],[32,61,62],{},"Articulate, direct, and undaunted in her interview with Liz Burge, Yvonne Atwell reached past the visible, practical aspects of her community engagement into deeper reflections on social change and spiritual growth. Her sparkling eyes and intellectual energy indicated a rich satisfaction with the give-and-take of working for self-reliance in various African Nova Scotian communities. She talked calmly but confidently about her years of social activism, past the doubt about what she is able to do and accepting what she cannot accomplish, \"not as a negative but as something that happened for a reason and a purpose\".",[32,64,65,66,73],{},"Yvonne Atwell has engaged for over forty years in community development and social change, primarily in African Nova Scotian communities. 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It’s not like they took some type of training and then left halfway through it – even then, it’s not a failure, because it’s the lessons that you learned to get where you need to go.",[113,116,119,121],{"slug":114,"label":115},"forming-her-activism","Forming Her Activism",{"slug":117,"label":118},"practicing-social-activism","Practicing Social Activism",{"slug":120,"label":5},"creating-change-skills-and-advice",{"slug":122,"label":123},"last-words","Last Words",{"title":57,"description":62},"activists\u002Fyvonne-atwell\u002Findex","For over forty years, Yvonne Atwell has engaged in community development and social change. She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Halifax-based Community Justice Society.","zxX_YckdZjWG9IOvnlImYHIj9d7w8FD1E-JHDqJagmw",1789062652370]