Note: If you were not in class for this in-class writing exercise, please
complete it as a take-home written exercise and turn it in as soon as you
can.
Watchman, what of the night? So many victims in so many places need help. We need above all, to be shaken out of our indifference--the greatest source of danger in the world. For, remember, the opposite of love is not hate but indifference. The opposite of faith is not arrogance but indifference; the opposite of culture is not ignorance but indifference; the opposite of art is not ugliness but indifference. And the opposite of peace is indifference to both peace and war-- indifference to hunger and persecution, to imprisonment and humiliation, indifference to torture and persecution.*