APX-V-0009
“I stepped in when someone was being treated unfairly.”
Standing up for someone who cannot stand up for themselves in that moment is the purest expression of this tenet. You converted your capacity into their protection. That is exactly what strength is for.
Your Practice
Ask yourself: was my intervention effective, or did it create more chaos than it resolved? Good intentions require good execution. Evaluate what you did clearly, keep what worked, and note what you'd do differently next time someone needs you to step in.
The Architects
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ... This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
— Frederick Douglass, 'West India Emancipation' speech, Canandaigua, New York, August 3, 1857