This just came in the email and I thought it is very apt for all of us who are trying (nope, wrong choice of word), not trying, but DOING something to improve the state of animal welfare in our community and our country.
From Eknath Easwaran’s Thought For the Day:
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
– attributed to Edmund Burke
Some of our most trying difficulties are caused by plain old inertia. Inertia shows itself in not wanting to move, not wanting to act – in other words, in wanting to be a stone just lying on the road. It is all right for a stone to be inert; that is its role in life. But it is not all right for you and me to just lie down and try to avoid problems, saying, “What does it matter?”
When I hear the phrase “well adjusted,” I do not always take it as a favorable comment. Mahatma Gandhi has said that to be well adjusted in a wrong situation is very bad; in a wrong situation we should keep on acting to set it right. When Gandhi, at the peak of his political activity, was asked in a British court what his profession was, he said, “Resister.” If he was put in a wrong situation, he just could not keep quiet; he had to resist, nonviolently but very effectively, until the situation was set right.
Being a “resister” includes being a doer as well. One person, acting right CAN make a difference. Let’s not wait for the right time.
NOW is always right to do what is right.
RESIST the bad and DO what is right.
Speak up, Act right, and LEAD by example.
The animals cannot speak for themselves. That is why they need our help.
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