Rooted2Serve

When Good Men Do NOTHING.

"Often injustice lies in what you aren't doing, not only in what you are doing." -Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.5

History abounds with evidence that humanity is capable of doing evil, not only actively but passively. In some of our most shameful moments-from slavery to the Holocaust to segregation to the murder of Kitty Genovese-guilt wasn't limited to perpetrators but to ordinary citizens who, for a multitude of reasons, declined to get involved. It's the old line: All evil needs to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

It's not enough to just NOT to do evil. You must also be a force for good in the world, as best you can. So, I encourage us all today to reflect on some things you've stood passively and ignored. Maybe it's too late to do something about it, maybe not. But let us move forward with doing good each to another.