Moral Leadership for a Divided Age: Fourteen People Who Dared to Change Our World | 
Dominant classes of people throughout history have always been more likely to admire peers who enter into solidarity with the oppressed over oppressed people who become agents of their own liberation.… We prefer heroes who are “safe“— who do not disturb the status quo too terribly, who refuse to return the violence visited on them, who follow well-trod paths of pursuing social change rather than attacking the system itself.
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