Nothing Changes As Long As You Obey
MLKJr Quotes
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
We will not obey unjust laws or submit to unjust practices. We will do this peacefully, openly, cheerfully because our aim is to persuade. We adopt the means of nonviolence because our end is a community at peace with itself.
Most people can’t stand up for their convictions, because the majority of people might not be doing it. See, everybody’s not doing it, so it must be wrong. And since everybody is doing it, it must be right.
Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it politic? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular – but one must take it simply because it is right.
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
How to Stop Obeying
First of all, understand that how to do this must be YOUR decision. If you follow the “blueprint” of anyone but yourself, you’ll be falling right back into the same trap of obeying an authority. Yes, we’ve been trained in that all our lives, but it remains a fundamental error.
You must decide for yourself what path to take, and you must – inside of yourself – summon the courage to act upon it, without anyone else telling you what to do
You must choose and you must act. Until then, your suffering will remain. But when you do choose and act, you make yourself a free man or woman.
So choose a good path, then break the inertia of compliance and step out on your own. Make yourself into someone you’ll be proud of.
Paul Rosenberg
FreemansPerspective.com