tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13824647.post114927868969536448..comments2024-03-18T03:09:17.292-07:00Comments on The Narrow Bridge: "Do you Get this A lot?"Anyahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17251949534479867675noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13824647.post-1149818394432571732006-06-08T18:59:00.000-07:002006-06-08T18:59:00.000-07:00"3) Advocate for yourself AND the people you think..."3) Advocate for yourself AND the people you think are the worst off. Ally yourself with people whose background and options in life may be very different from yours, on the basis of what you DO have in common (including both good things and problems), and advocate for what you think will honestly help both of you."<BR/><BR/>Isn't that what the greatest civic leaders have always done? My heroes, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Cesar Chavez (circa mid-to-late 60s), all took up causes they could have easily avoided. In the 1950s, King could have stayed in the Northeast and been a college professor. In the early 60s, Chavez could have stayed in his modest though steady job as a mainstream organizer, rather than go off and start something great for the neglected. And Kennedy had it made with party regulars in '72 as long as he kept his mouth shut (I don't buy into the idea that he was ruthlessly ambitious).<BR/><BR/>The common good argument makes a lot of sense for any issue or movement. It only takes the right people and the proper circumstances for it to work.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00949699405435741691noreply@blogger.com