“I think it was a discussion in class: You know Gandhi had a nephew and there was some protest in the south of India and the nephew said to him that “I’m going to go down and observe the protest.” And Gandhi said to him, “When you see a house on fire, do you observe it or do you try to pick up a bucket of water and put it out?” If you’re going to go down there, participate. And that may have been a class moment of understanding the nature of engagement vs. observation.

–Robert Herzog '68