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 (s)he must take it simply because conscience tells (her) it is right.
Martin Luther King Jr., from his address, “To Chart Our Course for the Future” (1968).
How often are my questions compelled by safety, expediency, or vanity? How willing am I to ask those compelled by what is right? Hopefully, more times than not – no matter the risk, the cost, the “answer.”
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