When We Stay Quiet Before the Injustice
- America L Figueroa
- Jun 14, 2019
- 2 min read
When we stay quiet before the injustice, we are as guilty as the one doing injustice to the innocent. When we refuse to speak or intervene, and we fail to warn others of imminent danger, or to protect them when we see they're being attacked, we become co-aggressors and co-participants to that unjustice or attack others are committing.
As members of this society, we have a civic duty to raise our voice and defend what is right. We have an obligation to denounce immorality and safekeep the weak.
As servants of God, we have a holy responsibility to intervene when injustice is prevailing and not just feel compassion for the one who's being abused, but to come out in their defense and yell at the abuser: Stop! and stay by the side of the distressed until he is safe.
It's sad seeing in the news and social networks that people are being attacked and even beaten up in front of a line of spectators who instead of allowing the protective instinct to jump and stop the aggression, the instinct to take out their cell phone and start streaming, perhaps thinking of the 'Likes' they will get, is stronger.
It is unacceptable looking around and seeing people demanding with sticks and screams, the "right" to murder their own children, while we choose to stay quiet in fear of them thinking we belong to "a certain political or religious group, or to be judged as intolerants or to be kicked out of their peer groupírculo amistoso.
What has happened? In less than 30 years we have become insensitive, we have ran out of love and now we're filled with the fear of having to act correctly because we fear retaliation? We have become cowards and puppets of the system. Now it is hard to fight for what is good. We have the right weapons to do it, prayer, the Truth, our two feet, our voice, but what do we do? we put everything in the drawer just so "we don't look bad" or so we don't seem like fanatics; in the meantime, souls are getting lost children's minds are being corrupted, and families are perishing. .
Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist Minister said:
"He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it ."
How truthful that statement is in these days!
We can continue walking in this world as in a vegetative state, from work to home and from home-to-work; or enjoying life's pleasures ignoring those who should benefit with a gesture of humanity. We can keep on pretending that nothing is happening, until it happens to us or to the ones we love the most; or we can take the challenge and start swimming against the current telling to the world: I will no longer avoid the hungry, I will no longer stay quiet at the injustice, I will no longer be part of the problem, I will no longer continue living for myself.
"Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow."
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