As you come to know the seriousness of our situation—the war, the racism, the poverty in the world—you come to realize that it is not going to be changed just by words or demonstrations. It’s a question of risking your life. It’s a question of living your life in drastically different ways.
Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you’re going to do about it.
Kathleen Casey Theisen