There IS something you can do

If we want to lead this world through bad times to good, we must be truth-tellers. There will be those among the powerful who try to make us say what we know is clearly not true because, if everyone agree to believe the lie, the lie can go on forever. The lie that there is: nothing we can do about AIDS; nothing we can do about world poverty; nothing we can do about fair trade; nothing we can do to end war; nothing we can do about equality and justice; nothing we can do to provide education and health care, and housing and food, and roads and water and just wages for everyone in the world. If we want to lead this world to something better, we, too, must refuse to tell the old lies. We must learn to say with certainty and clarity: the emperor has no clothes! We must, like the child in the story, see what we're looking at and say what we see. Only then can real change begin.
(Taken from writings of Joan Chittister, OSB in Network Connection.)