“Those few weeks in jail were stark and I never want to go back, but it opened my eyes to a world I had never seen, a world occupied mostly by society’s rejects: Maori, Polynesian, the poor, drug addicts, prostitutes, gangs. My sheltered little self-righteous activist world seemed a joke, a choice in which I didn’t really think and work strategically to help create a better world.”
Tuhi-Ao Bailey writes in the New Zealand edition of Fleeing Vesuvius about her life experiences and the qualities that she has found to lead to positive change.
Featured image: Photo cells 2. Author: Shad Gross. Source: http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1226064
