Japan-based photographer and activist El-Branden Brazil quotes Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama: "If you think you're too small to make a difference, sleep in the room with a mosquito."
Passively or actively, we can or will make a difference. Brazil wishes more people would embrace action. "Often, people just drift through their lives apathetically, complaining about what's going on in the world. But they don't try to do anything to make a difference.
"If everyone had one cause that they gave 100 percent energy to, then we could change the world and make it a better place. But when people are busy just focusing on purchasing the next Louis Vuitton bag, we can't create that change.
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