'It is necessary that the weakness of the powerless is transformed into a force capable of announcing justice. For this to happen, a total denouncement of fatalism is necessary. We are transformative beings and not beings for accommodation'. Paulo Freire
“Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, racial conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.”
#Solzhenitsyn
It's a real peril for values-based organizations and people on a mission. In the end, it often undermines personal integrity and organizational objectives. Too often people are blind to it. The point critical is that this includes ourselves 🤯🤛
"The fiercer the struggle against the injustice you suffer, the blinder you will be to the injustice you inflict. We tend to translate the presumed wrongness of our enemies into an unfaltering conviction of our own rightness." - Miraslov Volf
Sometimes we think we are standing up for ourselves or our work or beliefs
when we’re really just guarding territory.
And even farther still,
we’re guarding our wounds.