Jim Lynes 🇵🇸

#C4News cover the vigil for Jason Arday in Trafalgar Square, London Lord Simon Woolley, Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge, "This time last week I was with Jason, because we knew Jason was suffering, we knew he felt hounded by those rabid wolves" "Jason wouldn't dare leave the house, and we said we'll get a taxi for you. We held him in our arms and told him he was loved" "He held Dianne Abbott's hands and he said: I love you. Then he said, "They're hounding me to death, and I cannot see a way out" Diane Abbott, "He was first appointed as a professor in Cambridge three years ago" "And for those three years he had a vicious campaign, a bitter campaign, by anonymous people, by other professors, who just didn't believe that a black man should be a Cambridge professor" One of his students, "His greatest contribution cannot be found in a palpitation, a title or a citation, nor in his talks" "It is found in people who continue to love him, in the lives he changed, and the confidence gave us and the doors that he fought to hold open behind him" Bell Ribeiro-Addy, "The public cruelty Jason was subjected to was too much for any man to bear" "The outpouring or love, support and grief since his death means so much to us" "Although it is bittersweet, kindness is needed in life, not just in death" Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "If you could change the world in any way, how would you change it?" Professor Jason Arday, "I would take a thread and a needle and I would interweave love into our society." "I think the absence of love in our society is absolutely palpable." "I feel the empathy we have for one another, the tolerance for one another, has completely eroded" "There is so much anger in society, and I often think what would one replace that with?" "If I could change the world, I would have the world spin on an axis of love"