A05 · Injustice and Grievance
Betrayal and injustice
Suffering real unfairness, broken trust, deceit or wrongful treatment.
Cues
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Donald L. Hollowell: smart perseverance under injustice
Civil-rights attorney Donald Hollowell fought uphill across segregated Georgia day after day, winning the desegregation of the University of Georgia and freeing Martin Luther King Jr. while enduring hostile courts and constant danger without losing his composure: 'you can't get angry; you have to get smart.
“The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.”
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
“Reason gives each side time to plead; moreover, she herself demands adjournment, that she may have sufficient scope for the discovery of the truth; whereas anger is in a hurry: reason wishes to give a just decision; anger wishes its decision to be thought just. ... The sword of justice is ill-placed in the hands of an angry man.”
What did they think they gained?
When injured, ask: what good or harm did this person think would come of their action? Is my sense of good and evil the same as theirs, or different?
Break the chain of family dysfunction
Rather than resent past mistreatment, Chekhov recognised his parents were themselves victims of a poor upbringing, and that someone eventually had to break the chain of the family's dysfunction.