Challenge what has made you or anyone impossible in the society to timely change every system that limit people from realizing their full potentials ahead of those coming behind you. All that constitutes limitations for a generation should not be left unchecked for the next generation to thrive well.
If the only
reason I will secure employment in Central bank of my nation or in any other
high profile organization is not based on merit but solely because I am the son
of a minister or governor or traditional ruler or president or a highly
influential person then, it is simply injustice of highest order. Where there
is a pepper seller's son/daughter who is truly qualified and should be aptly
picked for the same job on merit but would be denied the opportunity being seen
as a son of nobody for me who is considered as a son of somebody to secure the
job.
Perhaps this is the situation in your society it shouldn't be left unchecked. You should timely act to root out the menace whether you are among its beneficiaries or the deprived. Every opportunity should be made opened to all and if it cannot serve all, selection should be based on merit without fear or favour and thereafter proceed to create more opportunities to serve others.
I know too well that this means a revolution to those who profit by the inequality, injustice and favoritism in their society because of some circumstances and privileges that favour them thus, they may not like it. But following a deep thought, they would realize if the battle against such bad system is won, it is also a liberation for them too because they would be saved of perpetrating injustice and its grave consequences.
Or would
they have kept mum assuming they are also among those deprived by the same ill
system in which they unduly benefit? What about a possible twist of time and
they happen to fall out? Though, the deprived, poor, vulnerable and
marginalized may lack the power to fight for themselves but God is always interested
to see that justice and freedom is delivered to them in the fullness of time.
Who knew
that Former President of Libya of late in person of Muammar Gaddafi would die
the way he died? Consider all his cohorts and loyalists that unduly profited during
his self imposed reign in the old Libya, where are they today? Oh! You don't
know they no longer have a stake in the same nation where they once reigned?
This best explains a twist in time that can make anyone with unruly conduct and
lack of compassion fall out of place.
Those who
are neither perpetrators nor victims of the limiting factors in their society
should not act unconcerned. It is still required of them to challenge such
anomalies by speaking up in the interest of both the perpetrators and the
victims to be delivered to timely end such problems for the sake of the next
generation not to be perverted. We all owe people coming behind us to root out
all evils before their arrival and set the right standard for them to carry on.
If those ahead of us have failed to subdue injustice, inequality and favoritism
before we came, we shouldn't fail likewise.
"Injustice any
where is a threat to justice everywhere". - Martin Luther king Jr
"If you are
neutral on situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor". -
Desmond Tutu
"Every social
injustice is not only cruel, but it is economic waste". - William Feather
