There is a greater injustice than the one we fight.

It is the injustice of the cause that has lost its way.

Where this should have been a war against poverty and vulnerability, it risks becoming a war against the poor and the vulnerable.

The battles we should be fighting are not ones against powers and principalities. They should be against hatred and intolerance, against an unwillingness to speak truth to power and a reluctance to challenge the status quo.

And when we choose not to, when we bow to small-minded populism on the altar of public perception, we are surrendering that war. We are betraying those who rely on us, and silencing their voices.

Greater than the loss of their voices is the loss of their hope. The loss of their futures. And against this danger, we should never give up.

Closing Words - Rubicon Review [2020]