Radical, individual heart change is a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for the advancement of justice. Injustice thrives because too many of us do nothing about it. We do not hold injustice clearly, unmistakably, and urgently in our field of vision.
There is a great distance between the privileged world we inhabit and take for granted, and that other world where tragedy, disease, destitution, and oppression are rife. We misperceive suffering as their problem, not ours.
We live with a clear conscience, believing that we are not the perpetrators of injustice while also believing that injustice is beyond our power to change.
Mark Labberton, The Dangerous Act of Loving Your Neighbor
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