I think every person has the ability to effect change. I think we’re often led to believe that it’s just celebrities have some ability to effect change but I think that what’s important for us to realize is that everyone of us affects the world constantly through our actions, through our every smallest action, through our every thought, our every word, the way that we interact with other people we’re constantly affecting the world.
-Adam Yauch aka MCA of the Beastie Boys, in an interview with PBS Frontline about Tibet in 1997. Yauch passed away today at age 47.