Martin Luther King once said, “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”
Today we’re asked to support a President Trump… yet I see as much evil in this man as I’ve seen in any leader of my lifetime. I can not accept him as my President because to do so would be accepting of the evil he will perpetrate. It would be like accepting the Presidency of Adolph Hitler, knowing that he would kill millions of innocents. I applaud those who protest his triumph, because at the end of the day, this Presidency will lead to the pain and sorrow of millions. God help us.
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it–always."
— Mahatma Gandhi
“I am going to do this and I don’t give a crap”
- Dr. Mae Jemison, NASA
When bold people walk in faith and work hard to make their dreams come true, the faithless crowd perceives arrogance. Sometimes arrogance is just faith. But the crowd doesn’t live its dreams, the crowd doesn’t build a business that will impact the world and the crowd doesn’t live an extraordinary life.
source: Dragos Bratasanu, The Virtues of Arrogance, Huffington Post
"…when you want to do extraordinary with your life there is a lot of uncertainty. Very likely you are not sure what is the next right action. If you take bold leadership for your life, you need to be contrarian. Listen to your gut feeling and don’t rationalize your intuition away. Because It’s never the extraordinary people who do the extraordinary. It’s the ordinary people like you and me who decide to step out, get up off their knees and take the journey. Because they complete the journey, ordinary people like you become extraordinary."
— Dragos Bratasanu, “When the Sheep are Watching over your Mind, Huffington Post
In 1941, FDR argued that a peaceful, prosperous, and secure world is founded upon four essential human freedoms.
1. Freedom of Speech
2. Freedom of Worship
3. Freedom from Want
4. Freedom from Fear
Similarly, an innovative and prosperous company is founded upon four essential human freedoms.
1. Freedom to Speak
2. Freedom to Think
3. Freedom to Act
4. Freedom to Fail
The parallels between our ability to experience these freedoms in work and life are striking as they address the heart of creative expression and human existence. We all have an innate need to build, create, and express ourselves and we thrive best when we can do this without fear, repression, and intolerance. - Steve Burton
