It bets on our indignation, and loses.
But drama shows it has the power to keep an issue alive and stir our indignation.
In our indignation at prejudice, we cannot lose our own sense of humanity.
Please join us in our indignation and ask your leaders to stop bombing hospitals.
"Our indignation and our strength to fight only increases with every mistake and every lie of this government".
Apparently, inequality will go on getting worse no matter what anyone says, wearing us all down until our indignation is reduced to the moral equivalent of a muscle tic.
Invitations to move behind the ego The spirituality of both Hanukkah and Christmas urge us to move behind the ego, to witness but not collapse into the rambling judgments of our ego-minds, to release our competitiveness, our righteous indignation, our blames and our guilts.
Therefore, we have a right, no, an obligation to counter this destructive and, yes, oppressive discourse, and to stand up, to transform ourselves from bystanders into empowered upstanders taking with us our voices, our energy, our unity, our intelligence, our righteous indignation, and all the love of which we are capable.
"Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thought, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions," Joseph Conrad wrote in 1905.
Hiding behind the humbug that the attack of last Sept. 11 was too horrible, too devastating, too painful, too tragic for words, that words could not possibly express our grief and indignation, our leaders have a perfect excuse to drape themselves in others' words, now voided of content.
As a Mexican, it pains me to realize that people going missing has become so much a part of our social everyday reality that it no longer arouses our public indignation; only indifference and apathy.
