Challenge

Principle 4. We openly challenge ourselves and this toxic system: leaving our comfort zones to take action for change.

Nonviolent direct action is costly - to us, to those close to us and to our relationships. It requires disruption in our own lives.

So we have to challenge ourselves - are we willing to act? Are we willing to make changes in our lives to give us enough free space in them to enable us to act? Are we willing to make sacrifices?

Protest

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 – 1919)

To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men. The human race
Has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised
Against injustice, ignorance, and lust,
The inquisition yet would serve the law,
And guillotines decide our least disputes.
The few who dare, must speak and speak again
To right the wrongs of many.

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